Date: April/May 2010

Performance Details
Performance Project

Directors/ Facilitators
Scott Palmer
&
David Shearing

"Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist".

Dream/Play was a final year undergraduate performance which was presented to the public in 12 performances at stage@leeds in April 2010. Based on August Strindberg’s 1901 text A Dream Play which is notoriously difficult to stage, the company created an immersive performance in which the audience moved through a strange, dream-like environment.

This was a collaborative devised project involving students from all of the undergraduate courses in the School and included elements of dance, lighting, text, sound and projections. The central ideas taken from the play from which performance material was created, included the presentation of an illogical unstructured world, the fleeting existence of characters, notions of repetition, everyday routines and the pitiful nature of human existence.

The audience were not simply passive spectators but guided through a sensory experience in a strange environment which offered interesting opportunities for engagement and interactions with performers, objects and the space itself. Positive audience reactions indicated that we managed to create a dream-like experience which evoked a complex range of feelings, half-remembered moments and a resonant, rich theatrical experience.

View the Dream/Play micro-site

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