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A Dream Play

by August Strindberg

in a new version by Caryl Churchill
with additional material by Katie Mitchell and the company

‘Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist.’
Strindberg in his preface to A Dream Play, 1901

A dream about a girl from another world who comes to find out why people complain so much. Strindberg’s groundbreaking experiment in surrealism is performed at the National in a new version by Caryl Churchill.


A collaboration between the National Theatre and Tate Modern.

A Dream Play runs concurrently with the exhibition August Strindberg, at Tate Modern from 17 February – 15 May 2005.

Joint ticket £30 When you book for A Dream Play and the August Strindberg exhibition at the same time.

A Dream Play finished on: 11 May 2005

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