Life Is A Dream​

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★★★★ 1/2 Suzy Goes See

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★★★★ Arts Hub​

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Imagine your entire life has been confined to a single room. Your only source of entertainment? Grainy ’90s VHS tapes of a family you’ve never met—and Clotaldo, the only man you’ve ever known, who visits once a day. For twenty-two years, this has been your world. Then one day, you’re drugged, dragged to a castle, and told you’re a prince.

 

Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play about fate, free will and the boundaries of reality is re-imagined by theatre makers Claudia Osborne (FERVOUR.) and Solomon Thomas (re:group performance collective) into a compelling examination of parenting, protection and legacy.

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written by Claudia Osborne

co-directed by Claudia Osborne and Solomon Thomas

set and costume design by Cris Baldwin

lighting design by Kelsey Lee

sound design by Madeleine Picard

dramaturg Imogen Gardam

stage manager: Archer Dametto 

assistant stage manager: Emma Clulow

creative producer: Malcolm Whittaker

administration: Intimate Spectacle

images: Phil Erbacher and Solomon Thomas 

with: Thomas Campbell, Mark Lee, Shiv Palekar, Essie Randles, Ariadne Sgouros, Ariyan Sharma

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