Director as Dreamer: Directing Strindberg's A Dream Play

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2017-07-27

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Di Giovanni, David Donato

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What does it mean for a theatre production to have soul or spirit? What choices can the director make, starting from the conceiving process, to encourage a production to find spirit? How do these choices factor into the questions around the theatre director as creative or interpretive artist?
In directing August Strindbergs A Dream Play, I intend to answer these questions. This paper looks at how August Strindberg crafted poetic autobiography into A Dream Play, and proposes a similar conceiving process for the director. The research is then followed by selected journal entries from the rehearsal process.

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Fine arts

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