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This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper , Senior Editor. Learn More in these related Britannica articles:. August Strindberg , Swedish playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, who combined psychology and Naturalism in a new kind of European drama that evolved into Expressionist drama. His chief works include The Father , Miss Julie ,…. Indra , in Hindu mythology, the king of the gods. In early religious texts, Indra plays a variety of roles. As king, he leads cattle raids…. The literatures of Sweden and Finland are closely linked. What she finds is a tapestry of human misery in all or at least in many of its forms. With its fluid and shifting characters and scenes, the many allusions to mythology, religion, and philosophy, and the numerous variations upon a theme "humans are to be pitied! Someday, I want to see it performed — what an experience that would be. Aug 24, mh rated it liked it. Reading this in the early '80s was consolative; it cast into a different light my encounter with expressionism, punk rock music, the Reagan administration, and Edvard Munch's "The Scream. Mar 17, Steven Godin rated it liked it Shelves: scandinavia-iceland , plays-theatre. Was I dreaming, or did I really just read this? Jan 23, J rated it liked it. I think the first half of this was hard to follow in print and I think this piece isn't a play you should read but one you should watch because so much is spectacle and tranformation and transfiguration that reading it fails to do it justice. Pity Goodreads won't spot you a half star. I love how it is written as a dream, though, with the same illogical logic. It isn't boring at all, as the plot jumps from one thing to another very quickly. This part from the preface sums it up quite brilliantly: Time and space does not excist, and the conciousness is above everything. And above all is the conciousness of the dreamer. Jan 24, Melanie rated it liked it. Not quite sure what to think about this play, I will have to talk about it with my -Phd in humanities- husband. It is one of his favorites, but a little strange for me. Nov 22, Czarny Pies rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Anyone finding it on a course reading list. Shelves: scandinavian-lit. After having established himself as one of the leading playwrights of the naturalist school, Strindberg then moved into the modernist cum symbolist cum surrealist precursor camp with this loopy play about Agnes daughter of the Vedic God Indra. Most modernist plays aim to jolt the audience members out of the comfort zone. Most theatre goers are After having established himself as one of the leading playwrights of the naturalist school, Strindberg then moved into the modernist cum symbolist cum surrealist precursor camp with this loopy play about Agnes daughter of the Vedic God Indra. Most theatre goers are more comfortable with naturalist drama. The truth is that the modernist theatre is great fun when one is young and at university. The theories of drama propounded by the Modernist playwrights are invariably more interesting that their preposterous works. One result is that the clash discussion in modern theatre classes are always highly entertaining. Similarly the modernist authors allow undergraduates at espresso shops to trade war stories. I do not know if modernist drama succeeds as well on Goodreads. I have not found any modernist theatre groups on the site and should I stumble onto one, I intend to give it a wide berth. Oct 08, Momina Masood rated it liked it Shelves: plays , scandinavian-lit. Life does overwhelm us all at times. Beautifully written play, I loved the poetry. Strindberg pleads humanity's case with tremendous empathy and insight, though he leaves it dark and hopeless. Being a borderline melancholic myself, I still would like to believe in Heaven and in happily ever afters, and so the despair that this play ends with was slightly troubling. Life is not meant to be deciphered and solved as it was a riddle, though the quest for truth and enlightenment is a grand endeavor i Life does overwhelm us all at times. Life is not meant to be deciphered and solved as it was a riddle, though the quest for truth and enlightenment is a grand endeavor in itself. A little trust is needed to persevere. Trust in the natural order of things, that there will be the poor and the miserable and the sick and the wronged, and monsters might not always be slain, and justice might not always help the deserving. But so things are. Lamentation, if only could have made this world a better place, would have done so eons ago. If Strindberg had only summed up his play with more hope and faith, I would have given it a higher rating. Still, the writing is very good. Dec 26, John Ortega rated it really liked it. The tormented Mr. Strindberg brings in a really good mixture of mysticism, politics and social commentary that allow the reader to make sense of the play in whichever way they feel more inclined to. I haven't read any of Strindberg's other work, but I do feel inclined to check out more of his work. What I really like about this play is that it plays ha, pun off of Shakespeare's idea that "life is but a dream. I highly recommend this play; it is much better than I could ever say. Sep 28, Elliott rated it really liked it. Having recently just watched Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" again, I decided to read this play, which was mentioned as an influence on the film. Both Bergman's film and this play are according to Strindberg's statement that,"Time and space do not exist; the imagination spins, weaving new patterns on a flimsy basis of reality: a mixture of memories, experiences, free associations, absurdities and improvisations. View 1 comment. Jan 31, Wolfe Tone rated it it was amazing Shelves: classic-literature-pre , favorites. One of the most absurd and original plays I've ever come across. Strindberg was of course quite mad and had stints of paranoia, delusion and psychosis. It shows. This play is written entirely as a dream. The scenes follow eachother, and events take place in the way that they would in an actual dream. Which makes little sense sometimes. The dialogues are brilliant. Funny sometimes, surreal, but always with a razorsharp edge to them. Strindberg is no optimist. It may not be to everyone's liking, but One of the most absurd and original plays I've ever come across. It may not be to everyone's liking, but it sure is to mine. Jan 22, Drew rated it really liked it Shelves: drama. It's a decidedly surreal experiment and while Strindberg's misogyny may not jibe with Churchill's feminism, their shared sympathy for the proletariat suggests it's not such an odd match of talents. Sajjad Ali Khan. There is more than one reason it should be part of everyone's reading : its about us, in a very true sense of the word. Besides who wouldn't love to read about dreams, life, death and play all displayed in nothing and everything. On an academic level it is although modernist text and expressionism is the technique employed here but its also in ver many ways a postmodernist text, if you don't see Myth as meta-narrative but a fragmented narrative with many threads. May 19, Stina rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics , books-i-own , plays , favorites. It grabs you by the very rooth of your soul. After watching it as a play for the first time I was scared of being alive and even more scared of not really living. I had to read the book and it is every bit as good. I feel sad for the humans as well I'm generally not much of a Strindberg fan, and was therefore pleasantly surprised by this play. In a very non- Strindbergian fashion, the author creates a dream world as a parable to our everyday world. A quick and fun enough read that must have looked marvelous on stage. Apr 28, Michelle rated it it was amazing Shelves: plays. I highly enjoyed the dialogue in this play, especially the dialogue between the deans of theology, medicine, philosophy and law. Really interesting. Jul 06, Alice rated it really liked it Shelves: school. Whimsical and fascinating and ridiculously philosophical. Slightly less stunning than I imagined, but as the play demonstrates, it was only written by a human. Jul 15, Steven rated it it was amazing Shelves: plays , scandanavian , favorites. An expressionistic and existential masterpiece capturing the essential suffering of the human condition. Sep 28, Michael Haase rated it liked it. If A Dream Play 's goal is to emulate dreams then it falls quite short. A dream is not so shifting and spontaneous. Rather than "A Dream Play", I would call it "A Play of Dreams", for it consists of several individual scenes, which may each be said to resemble a single dream. The plot concerns a daughter of a god touring through various moments in life like Scrooge from A Christmas Carol to witness the suffering of human life. A playbook to spark your awesomeness! By Scott Stoll, Sara E. Published by Magination Press. Learn More. Add to Cart. Our latest news. Kit de herramientas y chequeo de salud mental Educa a tu familia en casa con esta estrategia optimista de salud mental. Our latest stories. Falling Uphill: The Secret of Life This is the true story about a man who bicycles around the world questing for the secret of life. Fluffy Bunny Read the original, award-winning story by our co-author, Sara, that she wrote when she was in the 4th grade. Dreams from our Instagram feed. Or, tag your dream dreamaplay on Instagram or Facebook. A young dreamer. This expression says it all. 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Twice a day, therefore, we escape the eternal trouble of conscious or subconscious pain for the fleeting moment when we change from sleep to waking and vice versa. A dreamlike creature, and creator of nightmares. My favourite part in the play features the anonymous POET, who tries to reconstruct the moment humans were made - from clay. Ropar Lina! Ecstatic Out of clay are created these containers, so very necessary for the cupboard, which have the common name of pots, plates. Ecstatic This is the clay! Calls Lina! Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? Still a favourite, after all those years! View all 33 comments. Feb 20, Perifian rated it liked it Shelves: favorites , plays. That was surprisingly good. I'd be really interested in seeing it staged. Simple, but effective, and satisfying, somehow, by virtue of its oneiricity. Sep 14, Ben rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. And since dreams are more often painful than happy, a tone of melancholy, and of compassion for all living things, runs through the swaying narrative. Sleep, supposedly a liberator, is often a torturer, but when torment is at its worst, an awakening reconciles the sufferer with reality. No matter how agonizing reality can be, at this moment, compared with a tormenting dream it is a pleasure. August Strindberg frequently referred to A Dream Play as his "favorite" work, but he also referred t. August Strindberg frequently referred to A Dream Play as his "favorite" work, but he also referred to it as "the child of my greatest pain. Is madness the price one pays to create great art? Sometimes it seems. One thing is for certain, A Dream Play is certainly a revolutionary work, with Strindberg furthering his break away from realism and naturalism in much the same way that Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman in his own way would do in film, moving from neorealism ultimately to surrealism, blending the dreamworld with the waking world. Although To Damascus a play that I've yet to read, and one that is considered by some to be Strindberg's true "masterpiece" preceded A Dream Play by two years both starring Strindberg's third wife, Harriet Bosse, when initially produced in Sweden , it is interesting that Strindberg didn't consider its style an experimentation that he would just as soon abandon when working on his next play as is the case with some of his decisions in Miss Julie , but would instead expand on these, taking some great leaps forward, giving A Dream Play a very contemporary and even postmodern feel. Apparently when he first wrote To Damascus , Strindberg had sent a copy of that work to his contemporary Henrik Ibsen, whom Strindberg referred to as "the Master, from whom he learned much. And like Peer Gynt it seems that A Dream Play , fascinating as it is, would present extraordinary technical difficulties, with rapidly changing scenes and images like castles that grow from the ground and later burn and then blossom. The difficulties in staging such a play are highlighted by Ingmar Bergman in his illuminating autobiography, A Magic Lantern. He stated of his later difficulties in staging some of Strindberg's works though less due to technical issues than personal problems for him and his cast, though he does discuss general production issues with A Dream Play as well that it seemed as though Strindberg's ghost was standing in his way: Strindberg has been showing displeasure with me in recent years. That number of misfortunes is no coincidence. For some reason, Strindberg did not want me. The thought saddened me, for I love him. In terms of content, interestingly, while there is no evidence suggesting that Strindberg read Sigmund Freud just as there is no evidence that Proust read Freud, despite surprising similarities , his writing on dreams which he explores through art is very similar to that of Freud. Perhaps cosmically or historically there is something to this and many artists and thinkers were making the same realizations at the same time for whatever reason, drawing from the same universal pool of knowledge perhaps someone has written on this; if so it would be an interesting read, I'm sure, and if not here's an idea for exploration -- provided one has the time to commit the endless hours of research time to this task. A Dream Play is seen by some as a forerunner to Expressionism and Surrealism and, as in a dream, scenes shift rapidly and with little logical reason, characters come and go and different symbols emerge here and there a few very sexual , some more obvious than others, just as in Freud's theories on dreams. As with many a Strindberg play, although this one is in a different style from his early works, there is still an autobiographical strand in this work. Strindberg had just gone through a third divorce, this time with Harriet Bosse, who played the lead in the original production of this work, and had as with his other relationships turned the gritty side of them into artistic material. And, also as with Strindberg's other works, this play operates in a mythical world and draws on certain familiar motifs from fairy tales, though unlike his earlier works because of its dreamlike qualities it is harder to pin down in a specific socio-historical period. There was so much to this short play -- too much to elaborate on here though if I pick this play up again I'd like to expand on the many thematic points that I left out of this review -- and it was constantly drawing my mind this way and that to other works that I've read, some of which Strindberg may or may not have been intentionally alluding to the stories of Balzac, the poetry of William Blake and Edgar Allan Poe, the plays of Ibsen, the work of Freud and Marx and to so many works that seemed to owe a great deal to this play like Beckett's Waiting for Godot and, of course, the films of Bergman and Fellini. I suppose that insomuch as the themes are so similar to other Strindberg plays, while the structure, form and setting are so different, that it is probably more justifiable that I focus in this review on the latter points. In my review of Strindberg's The Dance of Death , after all, I note that like many artists his work dealt with recurring themes which are identified in that review. This play took many of those same familiar themes and did something new and exhilarating with them, making it instantly my favorite of the four Strindberg plays that I've read to date. Dec 05, Sarah rated it it was amazing Shelves: plays , favorites , scandinavian-lit. I once asked a little boy why the sea was salt, and the boy, whose father was away on a long journey, said right away, "The sea is salt because the sailors cry so much. I have seen this done by him before, particularly in To Damascus , but this work really masters the technique that I sense he was working to accomplish. I am glad that this play is so different than his other works, because it's fantastic and new for Strindberg. The story, from what I can tell, is about the daughter of Indra coming down to Earth to see how the humans live. She meets a plethora of characters, including an Officer who pines over the ever-present Victoria, a Stage-Door Keeper who used to be a prima ballerina, and a Poet who insists that everything is a dream. There is no cast list at the beginning of the play, so there have been a lot of productions that have had enormous casts covering all parts, but I think that Strindberg made all of these characters to be multiple individuals; therefore, there have been small casts for this play as well. I enjoy the confusion taking place, mostly because it really feels like a dream; things wander in and out , the scene changes rapidly and illogically, unknown time lapses happen. How odd, but how brilliant! While being weird, this play is also very much a poignant play exposing the facets of the human psyche. Every character is fixated on something or another, and in that way, they have a problem. I really was able to get emotional in many places because some of the stories told by characters were very sad or very poignant. It's incredible that such a surreal play can still make me feel something. All I can really say to sum this up is that I would absolutely love to see this play performed. It is so surreal, and the sets are so complex and rapidly changing. I'm sure that it would be lots of fun to see on the stage. View all 3 comments. Dec 26, Sidharth Vardhan rated it really liked it Shelves: europe , plays. Surealer and surealer! English title: A Dream Play. In the context and on the topic of his words, it feels impossible not starting to formulate your sentences with more metaphors, with more angst and drama and with just more than you normally would. You almost unconsciously know you should English title: A Dream Play. You almost unconsciously know you should respect him and that his work is something which we should appreciate and bow before. But for now, the Dream. While, once again, that tragedy certainly caused some knots to inflict themselves in my otherwise quite clear view of Strindberg, just hearing the language, the old and dramatic that some consider pretentious and ostentatious, put a kind of spell on me and I found it was exactly the type of words that I like. It makes me appreciate words and it makes me want to make my own. So when the copy of Miss Julie given to me from school also included A Dream Play, I got a whim this Sunday to maybe just try reading it. I wanted to hear more, see if that thing bothering me in Miss Julie would continue and more importantly, I wanted more of his beautifully put words that even if this sounds like a drama in itself reminded me how beautiful my mother tongue can be. So, down I sat, book and coffee in hand. I thought that maybe it was going to be too hard, the language too old and complicated to be available for someone like me. I also thought that even if it is, what is the worst thing that can happen? So in I went — and let me tell you, the dream swallowed me whole and kept me for one long sitting until it was finished. A Dream Play, is written in a form that revolutionized the idea of how dramas can be created and played and it certainly surprised — not to mention confused — me when reading. At one point I found myself flicking back and forth a few pages, realizing the scene and the characters had morphed into something else and left me without any clue as to when this actually happened. When explaining it afterward, it sounds like complete nonsense, but in the moment, it was logical and clear and it really is like trying to explain a dream. Finally, the blind man asks why people cry when they are sad. We also find out that she is actually the Daughter of Indra, who according to Indian folktale is the god who sent his daughter to earth so she could see how the humans are living. It all wraps up and as you get closer and closer towards the end of the drama things get clearer and clearer. It kept me locked down, completely submerged in this state of dreaming, and waking I find I want to see more. View all 4 comments. The following quote, is Bergman's filmography in a nutshell. Everything is possible and probable. Time and space do not exist. On a flimsy framework of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns. Feb 20, Steven rated it it was amazing Shelves: plays , scandinavian , literature , poetry. So this is what it means to be mortal One misses even what one has not valued, One regrets even misdeeds never done… One yearns to go, and yet one longs to stay… So the heart's two halves are rent asunder, As if wild horses were pulling it apart, torn to pieces By contradiction, indecision, disharmony… In A Dream Play , Agnes, daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to discover whether the complaints and lamentations of its inhabitants are well-founded. What she finds is a tapestry of So this is what it means to be mortal One misses even what one has not valued, One regrets even misdeeds never done… One yearns to go, and yet one longs to stay… So the heart's two halves are rent asunder, As if wild horses were pulling it apart, torn to pieces By contradiction, indecision, disharmony… In A Dream Play , Agnes, daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to discover whether the complaints and lamentations of its inhabitants are well-founded. What she finds is a tapestry of human misery in all or at least in many of its forms. With its fluid and shifting characters and scenes, the many allusions to mythology, religion, and philosophy, and the numerous variations upon a theme "humans are to be pitied! Someday, I want to see it performed — what an experience that would be. Welcome | Dreamaplay

Start your review of A Dream Play. Homo Strindbergiensis - a sorry creature! Even though it is part of a European tradition, and strongly connects to modern theories on the subconscious and on dream experience, it is at the same time a very Swedish play, wi Homo Strindbergiensis - a sorry creature! Even though it is part of a European tradition, and strongly connects to modern theories on the subconscious and on dream experience, it is at the same time a very Swedish play, with the ambiguity of the Swedish language as one of its main themes and attractions. The Latin root of the English word indicates the same connection. Humans are sinful creatures, but we are supposed to pity them anyway, because they suffer. That is the fleeting, floating, recurring message of the dreamlike sequences. Life is complicated, painful, hard, and sinful, but after a nightmare, when we wake up, we embrace it for a moment, just to escape the pain of sleep. And in the evening, sleep gives us a break from the pain of life. Twice a day, therefore, we escape the eternal trouble of conscious or subconscious pain for the fleeting moment when we change from sleep to waking and vice versa. A dreamlike creature, and creator of nightmares. My favourite part in the play features the anonymous POET, who tries to reconstruct the moment humans were made - from clay. Ropar Lina! Ecstatic Out of clay are created these containers, so very necessary for the cupboard, which have the common name of pots, plates. Ecstatic This is the clay! Calls Lina! Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? Still a favourite, after all those years! View all 33 comments. Feb 20, Perifian rated it liked it Shelves: favorites , plays. That was surprisingly good. I'd be really interested in seeing it staged. Simple, but effective, and satisfying, somehow, by virtue of its oneiricity. Sep 14, Ben rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. And since dreams are more often painful than happy, a tone of melancholy, and of compassion for all living things, runs through the swaying narrative. Sleep, supposedly a liberator, is often a torturer, but when torment is at its worst, an awakening reconciles the sufferer with reality. No matter how agonizing reality can be, at this moment, compared with a tormenting dream it is a pleasure. August Strindberg frequently referred to A Dream Play as his "favorite" work, but he also referred t. August Strindberg frequently referred to A Dream Play as his "favorite" work, but he also referred to it as "the child of my greatest pain. Is madness the price one pays to create great art? Sometimes it seems. One thing is for certain, A Dream Play is certainly a revolutionary work, with Strindberg furthering his break away from realism and naturalism in much the same way that Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman in his own way would do in film, moving from neorealism ultimately to surrealism, blending the dreamworld with the waking world. Although To Damascus a play that I've yet to read, and one that is considered by some to be Strindberg's true "masterpiece" preceded A Dream Play by two years both starring Strindberg's third wife, Harriet Bosse, when initially produced in Sweden , it is interesting that Strindberg didn't consider its style an experimentation that he would just as soon abandon when working on his next play as is the case with some of his decisions in Miss Julie , but would instead expand on these, taking some great leaps forward, giving A Dream Play a very contemporary and even postmodern feel. Apparently when he first wrote To Damascus , Strindberg had sent a copy of that work to his contemporary Henrik Ibsen, whom Strindberg referred to as "the Master, from whom he learned much. And like Peer Gynt it seems that A Dream Play , fascinating as it is, would present extraordinary technical difficulties, with rapidly changing scenes and images like castles that grow from the ground and later burn and then blossom. The difficulties in staging such a play are highlighted by Ingmar Bergman in his illuminating autobiography, A Magic Lantern. He stated of his later difficulties in staging some of Strindberg's works though less due to technical issues than personal problems for him and his cast, though he does discuss general production issues with A Dream Play as well that it seemed as though Strindberg's ghost was standing in his way: Strindberg has been showing displeasure with me in recent years. That number of misfortunes is no coincidence. For some reason, Strindberg did not want me. The thought saddened me, for I love him. In terms of content, interestingly, while there is no evidence suggesting that Strindberg read Sigmund Freud just as there is no evidence that Proust read Freud, despite surprising similarities , his writing on dreams which he explores through art is very similar to that of Freud. Perhaps cosmically or historically there is something to this and many artists and thinkers were making the same realizations at the same time for whatever reason, drawing from the same universal pool of knowledge perhaps someone has written on this; if so it would be an interesting read, I'm sure, and if not here's an idea for exploration -- provided one has the time to commit the endless hours of research time to this task. A Dream Play is seen by some as a forerunner to Expressionism and Surrealism and, as in a dream, scenes shift rapidly and with little logical reason, characters come and go and different symbols emerge here and there a few very sexual , some more obvious than others, just as in Freud's theories on dreams. As with many a Strindberg play, although this one is in a different style from his early works, there is still an autobiographical strand in this work. Strindberg had just gone through a third divorce, this time with Harriet Bosse, who played the lead in the original production of this work, and had as with his other relationships turned the gritty side of them into artistic material. And, also as with Strindberg's other works, this play operates in a mythical world and draws on certain familiar motifs from fairy tales, though unlike his earlier works because of its dreamlike qualities it is harder to pin down in a specific socio-historical period. There was so much to this short play -- too much to elaborate on here though if I pick this play up again I'd like to expand on the many thematic points that I left out of this review -- and it was constantly drawing my mind this way and that to other works that I've read, some of which Strindberg may or may not have been intentionally alluding to the stories of Balzac, the poetry of William Blake and Edgar Allan Poe, the plays of Ibsen, the work of Freud and Marx and to so many works that seemed to owe a great deal to this play like Beckett's Waiting for Godot and, of course, the films of Bergman and Fellini. I suppose that insomuch as the themes are so similar to other Strindberg plays, while the structure, form and setting are so different, that it is probably more justifiable that I focus in this review on the latter points. In my review of Strindberg's The Dance of Death , after all, I note that like many artists his work dealt with recurring themes which are identified in that review. This play took many of those same familiar themes and did something new and exhilarating with them, making it instantly my favorite of the four Strindberg plays that I've read to date. Dec 05, Sarah rated it it was amazing Shelves: plays , favorites , scandinavian-lit. I once asked a little boy why the sea was salt, and the boy, whose father was away on a long journey, said right away, "The sea is salt because the sailors cry so much. I have seen this done by him before, particularly in To Damascus , but this work really masters the technique that I sense he was working to accomplish. I am glad that this play is so different than his other works, because it's fantastic and new for Strindberg. The story, from what I can tell, is about the daughter of Indra coming down to Earth to see how the humans live. She meets a plethora of characters, including an Officer who pines over the ever-present Victoria, a Stage-Door Keeper who used to be a prima ballerina, and a Poet who insists that everything is a dream. There is no cast list at the beginning of the play, so there have been a lot of productions that have had enormous casts covering all parts, but I think that Strindberg made all of these characters to be multiple individuals; therefore, there have been small casts for this play as well. I enjoy the confusion taking place, mostly because it really feels like a dream; things wander in and out , the scene changes rapidly and illogically, unknown time lapses happen. How odd, but how brilliant! While being weird, this play is also very much a poignant play exposing the facets of the human psyche. Every character is fixated on something or another, and in that way, they have a problem. I really was able to get emotional in many places because some of the stories told by characters were very sad or very poignant. It's incredible that such a surreal play can still make me feel something. All I can really say to sum this up is that I would absolutely love to see this play performed. It is so surreal, and the sets are so complex and rapidly changing. I'm sure that it would be lots of fun to see on the stage. View all 3 comments. Dec 26, Sidharth Vardhan rated it really liked it Shelves: europe , plays. Surealer and surealer! English title: A Dream Play. In the context and on the topic of his words, it feels impossible not starting to formulate your sentences with more metaphors, with more angst and drama and with just more than you normally would. You almost unconsciously know you should English title: A Dream Play. You almost unconsciously know you should respect him and that his work is something which we should appreciate and bow before. But for now, the Dream. While, once again, that tragedy certainly caused some knots to inflict themselves in my otherwise quite clear view of Strindberg, just hearing the language, the old and dramatic that some consider pretentious and ostentatious, put a kind of spell on me and I found it was exactly the type of words that I like. It makes me appreciate words and it makes me want to make my own. So when the copy of Miss Julie given to me from school also included A Dream Play, I got a whim this Sunday to maybe just try reading it. I wanted to hear more, see if that thing bothering me in Miss Julie would continue and more importantly, I wanted more of his beautifully put words that even if this sounds like a drama in itself reminded me how beautiful my mother tongue can be. So, down I sat, book and coffee in hand. I thought that maybe it was going to be too hard, the language too old and complicated to be available for someone like me. I also thought that even if it is, what is the worst thing that can happen? So in I went — and let me tell you, the dream swallowed me whole and kept me for one long sitting until it was finished. A Dream Play, is written in a form that revolutionized the idea of how dramas can be created and played and it certainly surprised — not to mention confused — me when reading. At one point I found myself flicking back and forth a few pages, realizing the scene and the characters had morphed into something else and left me without any clue as to when this actually happened. When explaining it afterward, it sounds like complete nonsense, but in the moment, it was logical and clear and it really is like trying to explain a dream. Finally, the blind man asks why people cry when they are sad. We also find out that she is actually the Daughter of Indra, who according to Indian folktale is the god who sent his daughter to earth so she could see how the humans are living. It all wraps up and as you get closer and closer towards the end of the drama things get clearer and clearer. It kept me locked down, completely submerged in this state of dreaming, and waking I find I want to see more. View all 4 comments. The following quote, is Bergman's filmography in a nutshell. Everything is possible and probable. Time and space do not exist. On a flimsy framework of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns. Feb 20, Steven rated it it was amazing Shelves: plays , scandinavian , literature , poetry. So this is what it means to be mortal One misses even what one has not valued, One regrets even misdeeds never done… One yearns to go, and yet one longs to stay… So the heart's two halves are rent asunder, As if wild horses were pulling it apart, torn to pieces By contradiction, indecision, disharmony… In A Dream Play , Agnes, daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to discover whether the complaints and lamentations of its inhabitants are well-founded. What she finds is a tapestry of So this is what it means to be mortal One misses even what one has not valued, One regrets even misdeeds never done… One yearns to go, and yet one longs to stay… So the heart's two halves are rent asunder, As if wild horses were pulling it apart, torn to pieces By contradiction, indecision, disharmony… In A Dream Play , Agnes, daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to discover whether the complaints and lamentations of its inhabitants are well-founded. What she finds is a tapestry of human misery in all or at least in many of its forms. With its fluid and shifting characters and scenes, the many allusions to mythology, religion, and philosophy, and the numerous variations upon a theme "humans are to be pitied! Someday, I want to see it performed — what an experience that would be. Aug 24, mh rated it liked it. Reading this in the early '80s was consolative; it cast into a different light my encounter with expressionism, punk rock music, the Reagan administration, and Edvard Munch's "The Scream. Mar 17, Steven Godin rated it liked it Shelves: scandinavia-iceland , plays-theatre. Was I dreaming, or did I really just read this? Jan 23, J rated it liked it. I think the first half of this was hard to follow in print and I think this piece isn't a play you should read but one you should watch because so much is spectacle and tranformation and transfiguration that reading it fails to do it justice. Pity Goodreads won't spot you a half star. I love how it is written as a dream, though, with the same illogical logic. It isn't boring at all, as the plot jumps from one thing to another very quickly. This part from the preface sums it up quite brilliantly: Time and space does not excist, and the conciousness is above everything. And above all is the conciousness of the dreamer. Jan 24, Melanie rated it liked it. Not quite sure what to think about this play, I will have to talk about it with my -Phd in humanities- husband. It is one of his favorites, but a little strange for me. Nov 22, Czarny Pies rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Anyone finding it on a course reading list. Shelves: scandinavian-lit. After having established himself as one of the leading playwrights of the naturalist school, Strindberg then moved into the modernist cum symbolist cum surrealist precursor camp with this loopy play about Agnes daughter of the Vedic God Indra. Most modernist plays aim to jolt the audience members out of the comfort zone. Most theatre goers are After having established himself as one of the leading playwrights of the naturalist school, Strindberg then moved into the modernist cum symbolist cum surrealist precursor camp with this loopy play about Agnes daughter of the Vedic God Indra. Most theatre goers are more comfortable with naturalist drama. The truth is that the modernist theatre is great fun when one is young and at university. The theories of drama propounded by the Modernist playwrights are invariably more interesting that their preposterous works. One result is that the clash discussion in modern theatre classes are always highly entertaining. Similarly the modernist authors allow undergraduates at espresso shops to trade war stories. I do not know if modernist drama succeeds as well on Goodreads. I have not found any modernist theatre groups on the site and should I stumble onto one, I intend to give it a wide berth. Oct 08, Momina Masood rated it liked it Shelves: plays , scandinavian-lit. Life does overwhelm us all at times. Beautifully written play, I loved the poetry. Strindberg pleads humanity's case with tremendous empathy and insight, though he leaves it dark and hopeless. Being a borderline melancholic myself, I still would like to believe in Heaven and in happily ever afters, and so the despair that this play ends with was slightly troubling. Life is not meant to be deciphered and solved as it was a riddle, though the quest for truth and enlightenment is a grand endeavor i Life does overwhelm us all at times. Life is not meant to be deciphered and solved as it was a riddle, though the quest for truth and enlightenment is a grand endeavor in itself. A little trust is needed to persevere. Trust in the natural order of things, that there will be the poor and the miserable and the sick and the wronged, and monsters might not always be slain, and justice might not always help the deserving. But so things are. Lamentation, if only could have made this world a better place, would have done so eons ago. Written by Anonymous. It's a curiously engrossing drama that's arty and smart. The story and action builds slowly and peaks at the end when it should. And the stage play rehearsal scenes in the middle of the movie are very funny because they capture the madness, insecurities and backstage intrigues of legitimate theater. The stage-as-a-facade dovetails nicely with the drama portion of the movies that hits home the notion that what you see isn't always real. The movie had a lingering effect on me. Afterwards, I found myself parsing over twists and turns in the plot that can be interpreted several different ways. The acting is first rate and the characters are fleshed out. I see a lot of independent films where a few actors who are wooden ruin things, but that's not the case here. Also, this film has first rate staging and technical quality from the DVD I watched, which again is not the case with many indie films I see. Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. Director: I. Michael Toth.

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His chief works include The Father , Miss Julie ,…. Indra , in Hindu mythology, the king of the gods. In early religious texts, Indra plays a variety of roles. As king, he leads cattle raids…. The literatures of Sweden and Finland are closely linked. From the midth century until , Finland was ruled by Sweden, and Swedish remained the dominant…. History at your fingertips. Sign up here to see what happened On This Day , every day in your inbox! Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about A Dream Play , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of A Dream Play. Homo Strindbergiensis - a sorry creature! Even though it is part of a European tradition, and strongly connects to modern theories on the subconscious and on dream experience, it is at the same time a very Swedish play, wi Homo Strindbergiensis - a sorry creature! Even though it is part of a European tradition, and strongly connects to modern theories on the subconscious and on dream experience, it is at the same time a very Swedish play, with the ambiguity of the Swedish language as one of its main themes and attractions. The Latin root of the English word indicates the same connection. Humans are sinful creatures, but we are supposed to pity them anyway, because they suffer. That is the fleeting, floating, recurring message of the dreamlike sequences. Life is complicated, painful, hard, and sinful, but after a nightmare, when we wake up, we embrace it for a moment, just to escape the pain of sleep. And in the evening, sleep gives us a break from the pain of life. Twice a day, therefore, we escape the eternal trouble of conscious or subconscious pain for the fleeting moment when we change from sleep to waking and vice versa. A dreamlike creature, and creator of nightmares. My favourite part in the play features the anonymous POET, who tries to reconstruct the moment humans were made - from clay. Ropar Lina! Ecstatic Out of clay are created these containers, so very necessary for the cupboard, which have the common name of pots, plates. Ecstatic This is the clay! Calls Lina! Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? Still a favourite, after all those years! View all 33 comments. Feb 20, Perifian rated it liked it Shelves: favorites , plays. That was surprisingly good. I'd be really interested in seeing it staged. Simple, but effective, and satisfying, somehow, by virtue of its oneiricity. Sep 14, Ben rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. And since dreams are more often painful than happy, a tone of melancholy, and of compassion for all living things, runs through the swaying narrative. Sleep, supposedly a liberator, is often a torturer, but when torment is at its worst, an awakening reconciles the sufferer with reality. No matter how agonizing reality can be, at this moment, compared with a tormenting dream it is a pleasure. August Strindberg frequently referred to A Dream Play as his "favorite" work, but he also referred t. August Strindberg frequently referred to A Dream Play as his "favorite" work, but he also referred to it as "the child of my greatest pain. Is madness the price one pays to create great art? Sometimes it seems. One thing is for certain, A Dream Play is certainly a revolutionary work, with Strindberg furthering his break away from realism and naturalism in much the same way that Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman in his own way would do in film, moving from neorealism ultimately to surrealism, blending the dreamworld with the waking world. Although To Damascus a play that I've yet to read, and one that is considered by some to be Strindberg's true "masterpiece" preceded A Dream Play by two years both starring Strindberg's third wife, Harriet Bosse, when initially produced in Sweden , it is interesting that Strindberg didn't consider its style an experimentation that he would just as soon abandon when working on his next play as is the case with some of his decisions in Miss Julie , but would instead expand on these, taking some great leaps forward, giving A Dream Play a very contemporary and even postmodern feel. Apparently when he first wrote To Damascus , Strindberg had sent a copy of that work to his contemporary Henrik Ibsen, whom Strindberg referred to as "the Master, from whom he learned much. And like Peer Gynt it seems that A Dream Play , fascinating as it is, would present extraordinary technical difficulties, with rapidly changing scenes and images like castles that grow from the ground and later burn and then blossom. The difficulties in staging such a play are highlighted by Ingmar Bergman in his illuminating autobiography, A Magic Lantern. He stated of his later difficulties in staging some of Strindberg's works though less due to technical issues than personal problems for him and his cast, though he does discuss general production issues with A Dream Play as well that it seemed as though Strindberg's ghost was standing in his way: Strindberg has been showing displeasure with me in recent years. That number of misfortunes is no coincidence. For some reason, Strindberg did not want me. The thought saddened me, for I love him. In terms of content, interestingly, while there is no evidence suggesting that Strindberg read Sigmund Freud just as there is no evidence that Proust read Freud, despite surprising similarities , his writing on dreams which he explores through art is very similar to that of Freud. Perhaps cosmically or historically there is something to this and many artists and thinkers were making the same realizations at the same time for whatever reason, drawing from the same universal pool of knowledge perhaps someone has written on this; if so it would be an interesting read, I'm sure, and if not here's an idea for exploration -- provided one has the time to commit the endless hours of research time to this task. A Dream Play is seen by some as a forerunner to Expressionism and Surrealism and, as in a dream, scenes shift rapidly and with little logical reason, characters come and go and different symbols emerge here and there a few very sexual , some more obvious than others, just as in Freud's theories on dreams. As with many a Strindberg play, although this one is in a different style from his early works, there is still an autobiographical strand in this work. Strindberg had just gone through a third divorce, this time with Harriet Bosse, who played the lead in the original production of this work, and had as with his other relationships turned the gritty side of them into artistic material. And, also as with Strindberg's other works, this play operates in a mythical world and draws on certain familiar motifs from fairy tales, though unlike his earlier works because of its dreamlike qualities it is harder to pin down in a specific socio-historical period. There was so much to this short play -- too much to elaborate on here though if I pick this play up again I'd like to expand on the many thematic points that I left out of this review -- and it was constantly drawing my mind this way and that to other works that I've read, some of which Strindberg may or may not have been intentionally alluding to the stories of Balzac, the poetry of William Blake and Edgar Allan Poe, the plays of Ibsen, the work of Freud and Marx and to so many works that seemed to owe a great deal to this play like Beckett's Waiting for Godot and, of course, the films of Bergman and Fellini. I suppose that insomuch as the themes are so similar to other Strindberg plays, while the structure, form and setting are so different, that it is probably more justifiable that I focus in this review on the latter points. In my review of Strindberg's The Dance of Death , after all, I note that like many artists his work dealt with recurring themes which are identified in that review. This play took many of those same familiar themes and did something new and exhilarating with them, making it instantly my favorite of the four Strindberg plays that I've read to date. Dec 05, Sarah rated it it was amazing Shelves: plays , favorites , scandinavian-lit. I once asked a little boy why the sea was salt, and the boy, whose father was away on a long journey, said right away, "The sea is salt because the sailors cry so much. I have seen this done by him before, particularly in To Damascus , but this work really masters the technique that I sense he was working to accomplish. I am glad that this play is so different than his other works, because it's fantastic and new for Strindberg. The story, from what I can tell, is about the daughter of Indra coming down to Earth to see how the humans live. She meets a plethora of characters, including an Officer who pines over the ever-present Victoria, a Stage-Door Keeper who used to be a prima ballerina, and a Poet who insists that everything is a dream. There is no cast list at the beginning of the play, so there have been a lot of productions that have had enormous casts covering all parts, but I think that Strindberg made all of these characters to be multiple individuals; therefore, there have been small casts for this play as well. I enjoy the confusion taking place, mostly because it really feels like a dream; things wander in and out , the scene changes rapidly and illogically, unknown time lapses happen. How odd, but how brilliant! While being weird, this play is also very much a poignant play exposing the facets of the human psyche. Every character is fixated on something or another, and in that way, they have a problem. I really was able to get emotional in many places because some of the stories told by characters were very sad or very poignant. It's incredible that such a surreal play can still make me feel something. All I can really say to sum this up is that I would absolutely love to see this play performed. It is so surreal, and the sets are so complex and rapidly changing. I'm sure that it would be lots of fun to see on the stage. View all 3 comments. Dec 26, Sidharth Vardhan rated it really liked it Shelves: europe , plays. Surealer and surealer! English title: A Dream Play. In the context and on the topic of his words, it feels impossible not starting to formulate your sentences with more metaphors, with more angst and drama and with just more than you normally would. You almost unconsciously know you should English title: A Dream Play. You almost unconsciously know you should respect him and that his work is something which we should appreciate and bow before. But for now, the Dream. While, once again, that tragedy certainly caused some knots to inflict themselves in my otherwise quite clear view of Strindberg, just hearing the language, the old and dramatic that some consider pretentious and ostentatious, put a kind of spell on me and I found it was exactly the type of words that I like. It makes me appreciate words and it makes me want to make my own. So when the copy of Miss Julie given to me from school also included A Dream Play, I got a whim this Sunday to maybe just try reading it. I wanted to hear more, see if that thing bothering me in Miss Julie would continue and more importantly, I wanted more of his beautifully put words that even if this sounds like a drama in itself reminded me how beautiful my mother tongue can be. So, down I sat, book and coffee in hand. See the list. When a new actor comes to their town and gets a role in the play, the whole question of 'whose dream is this? During rehearsals, he develops new friendships and a conflict with the eccentric but demanding director of the play. While trying to master the multiple roles he was cast to play, he realizes that opening night and payday are far off, so he decides to take a side gig that makes him really stretch his acting abilities. Written by Anonymous. It's a curiously engrossing drama that's arty and smart. The story and action builds slowly and peaks at the end when it should. And the stage play rehearsal scenes in the middle of the movie are very funny because they capture the madness, insecurities and backstage intrigues of legitimate theater. The stage-as-a-facade dovetails nicely with the drama portion of the movies that hits home the notion that what you see isn't always real. The movie had a lingering effect on me. Afterwards, I found myself parsing over twists and turns in the plot that can be interpreted several different ways. The acting is first rate and the characters are fleshed out. I see a lot of independent films where a few actors who are wooden ruin things, but that's not the case here. Also, this film has first rate staging and technical quality from the DVD I watched, which again is not the case with many indie films I see. Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits.

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