LIFE IS A DREAM
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
| One of the masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age. It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the king, imprisons him. When he is released for a day as an experiment he proves the omens only too right, and, as a result, is incarcerated once more. Sigismund persuades himself that all that has passed is a dream and emerges to rule wisely and justly. When premiered in Edinburgh, this new version was hailed in the Guardian as “the star of the festival…John Clifford's translation reclaims a Spanish masterpiece for the modern stage.” . |
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