DeGeorge's aesthetically pleasing take on a Strindberg classic is a symbiotic work of art. If you didn’t know that “A Dream Play” was a) written in 1901 and b) Swedish and thus translated into English, you might suspect that you were watching a pretentious play about . . . well, you probably wouldn’t know. I’ve seen enough theatre and studied enough literary criticism to get that this is a play about humanity and suffering. But knowing that the playwright wrote it following a near-psychotic episode, in which he was paranoid about witches trying to murder him and that all women were out to get him, well . . . it provides much-needed context to fully understand the piece.
REVIEW: A Dream Play
REVIEW: A Dream Play
REVIEW: A Dream Play
DeGeorge's aesthetically pleasing take on a Strindberg classic is a symbiotic work of art. If you didn’t know that “A Dream Play” was a) written in 1901 and b) Swedish and thus translated into English, you might suspect that you were watching a pretentious play about . . . well, you probably wouldn’t know. I’ve seen enough theatre and studied enough literary criticism to get that this is a play about humanity and suffering. But knowing that the playwright wrote it following a near-psychotic episode, in which he was paranoid about witches trying to murder him and that all women were out to get him, well . . . it provides much-needed context to fully understand the piece.