page_title: A Dream Play
section_title: Notable productions
hierarchical_section_title: A Dream Play / Notable productions
caption_attribution_description: English: The quarantine inspector - A Dream Play of Johan August Strindberg - Accademia di Costume e di Moda - Final Work of costume Rome 3 may 2010 - Acquario Romano - Direction of Matteo Tarasco - Interpreter Daniele Sirotti - Costume of Sara Mirabella Italiano: L'ispettore della quarantena - Sogno di Johan August Strindberg - Accademia di Costume e di Moda - Final Work di costume Roma 3 maggio 2010 - Acquario Romano - Regia di Matteo Tarasco - Interprete Daniele Sirotti - Costume di Sara Mirabella
context_page_description: A Dream Play was written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It was first performed in Stockholm on 17 April 1907. It remains one of Strindberg's most admired and influential dramas, seen as an important precursor to both dramatic Expressionism and Surrealism.
context_section_description: The world premiere of A Dream Play was performed at The Swedish Theatre in April 1907, six years after it was written. Harriet Bosse, Strindberg's third wife (divorced by this time) played Indra's daughter. Victor Castegren directed the production and Carl Grabow was the designer. Critics at the time noted that the demands of the play made it nearly impossible to mount a satisfactory production. Strindberg himself desired to re-stage it in his Intimate Theatre, but ultimately it was not successful.
  The play afterward attracted some of the 20th century's most celebrated directors, including Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander, Antonin Artaud, Ingmar Bergman, Roger Blin, Robert Wilson, Mike Dempsey, Robert Lepage and Alejandro Jodorowsky. The German director Knut Ström staged A Dream Play in Düsseldorf in 1918, co-directed with Paul Henkels.
  An edited version by Caryl Churchill was staged at the National Theatre in London in 2005. The edited version was brought to other areas too, such as Edge Theatre Ensemble in Seattle and Jobsite Theater in Tampa, and was brought to Sheffield's Drama Studio in February 2012.
  A new adaptation by Emma Reay was performed at Oxford Playhouse in 2011. Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1, playwright Alfian Sa'at's loose adaptation, premiered in Singapore in 2000 and was re-staged in 2014.
caption: The Quarantine Inspector in a 2010 production of A Dream Play
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