A Dream Play

In his visionary staging of August Strindberg’s 1901 A Dream Play, acclaimed director, designer, and visual artist Robert Wilson adapts the spectral work to technically stunning, large-scale reorderings of time, space, and narrative. The play describes a mythical journey that the daughter of the great Hindu deity Indra takes to Earth to learn how mankind lives. True to the nature of dreams, the impossible becomes real. Amorphous shapes coalesce into human form, then dissolve into multiples. Time bends and fractures. And technology, just beginning to rear its head in the dawning century, takes metaphorical precedence. This production is part of BAM’s Next Wave Festival.