Details

Who doesn't dream? In dreams we fix things, wish for miracles, fear damnation and imagine magic. As a dream would, Strindberg's play unpicks timelines, morphs the improbable, condenses universal experiences and evaporates reason. Absurd abstractions become logical. In part re-imagined by Caryl Churchill, Agnes, daughter of God Indra, descends to Earth to unravel the cause of human suffering. Is Love really doomed to fail those who believe in it? What's behind the door? Why a green bucket? You will get questions, you might find answers, and in the end perhaps see joy in accepting life for what it is.

Cast/Performers

Minjeong KIm (Agnes), Fionna Monk (Agnes), Stephan Mirre (Officer), Dominic Reed (Solicitor / He), Nick Hall (Writer / Father), Nina Ali (Mother / Psychoanalyst / Lady / Victoria), Jonathan Buckingham (Billsticker / Teacher / Barrister / Prompter / He), Matt Cranfield (Quarantine Master / Scientist / Building Worker / Gent), As Richards (Stage Door Keeper / Bishop / Lina / Edith's Mother), Gulistan Sarbas (Kristin / Building Worker / Rich Fat Sick), Stephanie Thomson (Dancer / Rich Fat Sick / Newly-wed Wife / Edith), Tim Waghorn (Glazier / Newlywed Husband / Inquiry Chair / Rich Fat Sick), Jane Anne Wilford (Blind Woman / Singer)

Creatives/Company

Author: August Strindberg
Adapted by: Caryl Churchill
Director(s): Angelika Michitsch, Trinidad Prieto (movement)
Design(s): Angelika Michitsch, Max Maxwell
Costume: Roxanne Ivy Roberts
Lighting: Alex Kampmann
Sound: Ruth Sullivan
Stage Manager: Laura Corkell