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Auditions: The Dream Play
Sunday, February 5, 2023 6pm to 8pm
University Theatre (TH), JO 2.702J
Free Event
Event Details
Auditions: in University Theatre (JO 2.702) on Saturday, February 4th from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sunday, February 5th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Dream Play is inspired by August Strindberg's original play and is adapted and directed by Thomas Riccio.
Prepared monologues are not required. The auditions will be a combination series of theatre games, improvisations, and readings from the text.
Synopsis:
The Dream Play is a phantasmagoric hallucinatory fairy-tale fantasy that follows the associative logic of a dream. The 1901 play was a precursor to Expressionism and Surrealism, influencing the transformation of drama, narrative, and the possibility of artistic expression that followed. The play follows the daughter of the Vedic god Indra who descends from heaven to earth to find everything that can happen and is possible. The imagination spins, weaving new patterns, a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities, and improvisations. The characters split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, disperse, and reassemble. Time and place are provisional, along with identity, self, and meaning. The daughter of Indra discovers no secrets and that life is an illusion, like a dream.
For more info, write the director: thomasriccio@utdallas.edu
Location
University Theatre (TH), JO 2.702J
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
Cost
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Free
Department
- Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
Contact Information
- Thomas Riccio
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Undergraduate Students, Faculty & Staff, Alumni, General Public, Prospective Students, Graduate Students, International Students
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