Life's a Dream
By John Barton and Adrian Mitchell
Life's a Dream is a play that needs 7 or more performers (2 women, 5 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 7 or more performers
- Roles
- 2 women, 5 men
- Cast notes
- 5m., 2w. (extras.)
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote, " Life's a Dream , the Calderón metaphysical masterpiece, is one of the finest fruits of the 17th-century golden age of Spanish drama … an ever pertinent play about the power of free will … seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company in a version both magical and lucid, playing to turn-away crowds. Rather than take the easy way out with a prose version, the adapters rewrote the play in English verse—serving the work's comic and tragic needs with a variety of for
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