{"product_id":"9781780014289","title":"A Dream Play (NHB Classic Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism, \u003ci\u003eA Dream Play\u003c\/i\u003e follows the logic of a dream:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA young woman comes from another world to see if life is really as difficult as people make it out to be. Characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image. As Strindberg wrote in his preface, he wanted 'to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund. Introduction by Caryl Churchill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'elegant yet funereal and, like dreams, paradoxically serene and fraught'- \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'100 minutes of disconcerting theatrical brilliance... spellbinding'- \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152234954992,"sku":"9781780014289","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780014289_p0.jpg?v=1763710848","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780014289","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}