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EVER WONDER if you dream in color? According to the innovative production of Strindberg's A Dream Play directed by Mark Prascak in the Adams JCR, you do. In green...
Written by August Strindberg...
...this hilarious rendition of Strindberg's drama, Prascak takes us on a surreal two-hour journey through the playwright's inner dreams--into a sort of Emerald City in Hell. Prascak makes use of everything from green fishnets to Pine-Sol Spray to create his narrative of life-on-earth. But remember, this is the fantasyland of dreams. Here, as Strindberg admitted, "anything can happen; everything is possible and probable. Time and space do not exist. Characters can split, double, multiply, dissolve, float apart, condense." This ain't gonna be no night at the opera...
...decade Strindberg lived in exile (Paris, Berlin, Switzerland), and all his life he lived as a kind of pilgrim, tracking down every cracked new theory, pursuing every wild whim in the desperate hope that it might lead to the Truth. As an early modern, caught in the whirlwind and helping to agitate it, he understood that he inhabited "an age of transition"--at one moment "split and vacillating," at the next moment "urgently hysterical...
...best plays of Eugene O'Neill and John Osborne, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, wherever anger scalds and language blisters, the ghost of this strange, contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young man, Strindberg wrote his manifesto: "No spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits." Here stands the classic confession of the artist as terrorist--not a nice man, but very much our contemporary...