Life Is A Dream

By Pedro Calderón de la Barca
In a new translation by Andrew Saito
Directed by Paige Rogers
December 7, 2014

Cutting Ball’s resident playwright Andrew Saito has translated Spanish Golden Age playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Life is a Dream. Associate Artistic Director Paige Rogers will direct this story of a young prince who is imprisoned by his father at birth, briefly released as a young adult, and then imprisoned again and convinced that his time as a free man was just a dream. In this newly commissioned translation Saito and Rogers will explore Calderón’s themes of free will, fate, and dreams versus reality.

 

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.