{"product_id":"a-dream-play-9781559362702","title":"A Dream Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): August Strindberg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Strindberg's \u003ci\u003eA Dream Play\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image. As Strindberg himself wrote in his Preface, he wanted \"to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaryl Churchill's spare and resonant new version was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in a production by Katie Mitchell, where \u003ci\u003eA Dream Play\u003c\/i\u003e was called \"fresh, new and magical\" (\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaryl Churchill\u003c\/b\u003e has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include\u003ci\u003e Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Number\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAugust Strindberg \u003c\/b\u003e(1849-1912) was a novelist and playwright from Stockholm, Sweden. His plays include \u003ci\u003eMiss Julie, The Father, To Damascus, A Dream Play\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Pelican\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1912 Strindberg's birthday was marked by a torchlight procession through Stockholm, where his radical journalism had earned him the title of 'people's writer.'","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45081983713431,"sku":"9781559362702","price":1160.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781559362702.webp?v=1767634212","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-dream-play-9781559362702","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}