By August Strindberg
Translated by Paul Walsh
Directed by Rob Melrose
March 22, 2015
A Dream Play features the daughter of the Hindu god Indra who comes down to earth to better understand the plight of man. Her surreal journey ends after she has fully experienced human suffering. Strindberg structured the play using dream logic and said, “Everything can happen; everything is possible and likely.” In 2012 Melrose directed all five of August Strindberg’s chamber plays in Cutting Ball’s seven hour Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep.
The Cutting Ball Theater’s 2015-16 season is made possible in part by Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The RHE Charitable Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The San Francisco Foundation, and The Zellerbach Family Foundation, and Season Producers John and Paula Gambs, Ken Melrose, and Velia Melrose.
