A Dream Play

PSU’s Theater Program presents Caryl Churchill’s adaptation of Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s groundbreaking work, A Dream Play. Written in 1901, it represented an early effort to challenge the dominance of realism on European stages. Strindberg wrote that he “sought to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable.” Churchill’s powerful adaptation speaks succinctly to modern-day concerns about the seemingly insurmountable gap between our hopes and troubling realities.

In A Dream Play, Agnes, the daughter of Hindu god Indra, descends to earth wanting to understand human suffering by becoming human. Her time on Earth moves like a dream. She meets many characters on her journey, but in this dream-life, they split, double, evaporate, and reappear as she and they move through time and space, one moment moving forward, the next moment in the past, or suddenly in a different place, together or apart.

CAST

Lulu Pray – Agnes
Cam Reid – Writer
Keanan Stone – Glazier, Quarantine Master, Construction Worker 1
Robert McFarlane – Officer (Young and Aged)
Kiara Towse – Officer’s Mother, Stage Door Keeper, Queen, Older Lina, Older Well-To-Do Lady
Alex Winters – Voice of Indra, Officer’s Father, Billsticker, Dean of Theology, Teacher, Blind Man, Well-To-Do Gentleman
Amelia Hillery – Young Lina, Victoria, Singer 2, She, Alice, Dean of Science
Ryan Kennedy – Dancer, He, Lieutenant, Construction Worker 2, Dean of Psychiatry
Alyssa Lind – Singer 1, Prompter, Kristin, Edith, Dean of Law
Nate Linton – Lawyer

ARTISTIC TEAM

Director – Richard Wattenberg
Scenic and Projection Designer – Solomon Weisbard
Costume Designer – Maia Denzler
Lighting Designer – Sam Kemp
Sound Designer – Bards Myrick

PRODUCTION TEAM

Assistant Director/Associate Projection Designer – Madilyn Dyche
Assistant Director – Keanan Stone
Assistant Projection Designer – Claire Nothern
Costumer – Moth Noriega
Props Lead – Ty Caskin
Technical Director – James Chandler
Head of Costumes – Paige Hanna
Stage Manager – Rachel Errico
Assistant Stage Managers – Abby Fox, Ezra Veenstra
Production Electrician – Ronnie Rantis
Lighting Programmer/Operator – Nick Laudoff
Sound Board Operator – Hanna Rizo
Dramaturg – Josie Selvester

Costume Build Crew – Laura Helgeson, Amelia Hillery, Nate Linton, Lucy Rick, Ray Simpson, Sarah Treadgold, Myra Wang, Kaley Wilcox
Wardrobe Run Crew – Maile Crane, Emily Hansen, Adriana Jasso, Maggie Lewis
Scenic Build and Lighting Crews – Annissa Allred, Evii Anderson, Emilia Barrera, Cassidy Heap, Magbee Herold, Greta Lau, Amy Lichtenstein, Robert McFarlane, Luke Scalzo, Myra Wang
Public Relations Team – Shanti McCarter, Karen O’Donnell Stein
Marketing Intern – Dominic Mallari
House Management – Emilia Barrera, Jemimah Burke, Ana Gilmour, Carissa Rodriguez
Lobby Display Designer – Josie Selvester

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Questions: music@pdx.edu; (503) 725-3011

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