A Dream Play
Our inner theatre knows no limitations. This is what Calixto Bieito, star stage director from Spain, wants to recreate – through a visually wild and beautiful dream play.
Directed by Calixtio Bieito
The internationally acclaimed Calixto Bieito is once again unleashed at Nationaltheatret, this time to create a dream lasting a full evening. Nothing less. And this is not surprising for a director who is known for exploring the limits of what it is possible to achieve on stage.
A Dream Play is the story of the daughter of the god Indra. She asks her father for permission to go down to earth to see how people live.
«People should be pitied» is her famous conclusion.
The protagonist, Agnes, played by Mariann Hole, is a young girl with chronic anxiety. It is her mind that Bieito sets out to examine through a series of monumental installations on stage. For the scenography of the mind knows no limits. You will meet beautiful dreams and cruel horror.
From darkness to bright Scandinavian summer nights, from fire to water, past to present, from sorrow to joy. In close cooperation with his German team, set designer Rebecca Ringst, costume designer Ingo Krügler and dramaturg Bettina Auer, Bieito has made A Dream Play into a visual, textual and musical poem.
Bieito visited Nationaltheatret for the first time in 2006, with a Spanish production of Peer Gynt. He made a deep impression at Nationaltheatret and at the Bergen International Festival (Festspillene i Bergen) in 2008 with a controversial interpretatation of Ibsen’s Brand.
This time, Bieito will take us on a journey where we risk discovering aspects of ourselves and of the human mind that we might like to avoid. The Spanish director aims to transport the audience members out of their comfort zones.
Do you dare?