A Dream Play

The McGill University Department of English Drama & Theatre Program presents

A Dream Play

By August Strindberg

March 22-24 and 29-31

Moyse Hall Theatre - McGill University Campus, Arts Building

853 Sherbrooke St. West

Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

$10.00 general admission, $5.00 students/seniors

Ticket Hotline: 514-398-6070

The McGill Department of English Drama and Theatre Program is proud to announce its upcoming production of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, appearing in the English Department’s Moyse Hall beginning March 22-24, and continuing March 29-31, 2012.

Created to simulate the logic of a dream, the play follows the Daughter of Indra in her descent to the human realm: an unstable world in constant flux, dominated by all manner of colorful characters. This play epitomizes Strindberg’s work post his “inferno” period, when the playwright departed from the naturalist movement which he helped pioneer, into the realm of the unconscious mind.

In collaboration with the Costuming for the Theatre and Stage Scenery & Lighting courses, Professor Myrna Wyatt Selkirk and assistant Natalie Gershtein direct the 2011-12 Theatre Lab class in an exciting new interpretation of Strindberg’s notoriously challenging masterpiece. The cast and crew have devised an innovative use of the space and have utilized a vast array of influences – including mask, dance, film and projections –  to immerse the audience in the ever-present issues of class, politics, love, and mortality which comprise this meditation on existence. In Strindberg’s own tradition of pushing the bounds of theatre we invite you to experience the theatre—and reality—from a new perspective, with A Dream Play.

The McGill University Department of English Drama & Theatre Program is dedicated to providing students with practical theatrical experience. Costume Design by the Costuming Class under the tutelage of Catherine Bradley, Technical and Production elements by the Stage Scenery and Lighting class under the supervision of Keith Roche and Corinne Deeley.