A DREAM PLAY
by August Strindberg

A DREAM PLAY

by August Strindberg

Directed by Georgia Mavragani

From 20 March 2024

Strindberg wrote this deeply poetic work in 1901, bringing to the stage the unorthodox structure of a dream, in which space and time are abrogated and the characters are all different aspects of the dreamer's personality.

In this dream, Agnes, a daughter of the gods, comes to Earth to learn about human nature and the experiences of this unknown species. The many and varied people she meets each share their own world with her, which Agni sometimes enters as a spectator and sometimes as a participant. As she travels with them, she starts to become more and more human, experiencing for herself the difficulties of life, its hopes and disappointments.

Georgia Mavragani, together with her creative team and a dynamic cast, returns to the National Theatre to direct one of the great Swedish dramatist's most important works as a choral narrative, a large-scale piece of handcrafted theatre which, like a young child, poses the big questions - why do people suffer? why is the world made this way? and how should one live?
 
Production team
Translation: Giorgos Depastas
Adaptation and direction: Georgia Mavragani
Set design: Artemis Flessa
Costume design: Lily Kyrili
Music: Haris Neilas
Movement: Ermis Malkotsis
Lighting design: Christina Thanasoula
Dramaturg: Aspasia-Maria Alexiou
Directing assistant: Niki Doulgeraki
Set design assistant: Aggeliki Vassiliopoulou-Kampitsi
Costume design assistant : Maria Iliadi

Cast (in alphabetical order):
Aliki Alexandraki, Asimina Anastasopoulou, Thanasis Dovris, Korina-Anna Gougouli, Vasilis Karaboulas, Evangelia Karakatsani, Rania Kelaiditi, Melina Kotselou, Ermis Malkotsis, Nikos Manesis, Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Marina Papoulia, Elina Rizou, Mariam Rukhadze, Konstantinos Siozos, Giorgos Skarlatos, Vasilis Tryfoultsanis, Maria Tsima
 
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