Word: indra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of A Dream Play stands "Indra's Daughter," a sexy spiritual being sent to earth by her father, the God of the Universe, in order to experience the woes and sufferings of mankind. Valerie Steiker, who has the drop-dead looks of a Hindu goddess, plays her with the allure and comic Southern wit of a displaced Scarlett O'Hara...
...course of the play's flowing dream-like sequences, Indra's Daughter meets three suffering males--an imprisoned Army Officer (Matthew Schuerman), a stuffed-shirt Lawyer (Seth Sanders) whom she later marries, and a flighty Poet (Mark Karnow), all of whom are knowingly trapped within their limited existence as men. She becomes a sexual object, wife and mother--all of the everyday trappings of human femininity--before she is allowed to rise up and rejoin the gods...
What, then, are we to make of Indra's Daughter's experiences among the suffering humans? She can escape this dreadful life and we, miserable human beings, can't. Fortunately, though, we have such imaginative production as A Dream Play to help us laugh through the muck as we live through this life in Hell...
Henrik Vogler (Erland Josephson) is a renowned stage director, now embarking on a new production of August Strindberg's 1902 fantasia, A Dream Play. In the pivotal role of Indra's Daughter he has cast young Anna Egerman (Lena Olin), who is the daughter of two of Henrik's old acting colleagues. One afternoon, following a rehearsal of the play, the dozing Henrik is awakened by Anna. They sit on an old sofa and chat about their crossed lives and their shared art. The talk drifts to Anna's dead mother Rakel, and in the wink...