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January 21st – 22nd, 24th - 30th *

at the

Gas Station Arts Centre

The BHTC is proud to present Caryl Churchill’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play for StrindbergFest 2011. Please see the attached Strindbergfest Press Release or visit the web site at

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A Dream Play is Strindberg’s expressionist masterpiece, one of his most important and imaginative works, and his own personal favourite.

The gods send their daughter, Agnes, to earth to seek the reasons for mankind’s sorrow, and she encounters a procession of hopeless romantics, thwarted saints, and twisted grotesques through the course of the play.

Like Strindberg, we want to re-create in the theatre the experience of vivid dreaming and nightmare, and we do so with puppets, mutant hybrids (half human, half puppet), imagistic magic, dance, an original musical score, traditional Chinese music, and for a script, the evocative adaptation Caryl Churchill wrote for the National Theatre of Great Britain in 2005-thus a play by this year’s Master Playwright re-envisioned by last year’s Master Playwright.

“…Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; the imagination spins, weaving new patterns on a flimsy basis of reality: a mixture of memories, experiences, free associations, absurdities and improvisations.”

- August Strindberg

The Co-directors for this production are Chris Johnson and Tim Bandfield. University of Manitoba Theatre Professor Chris Johnson's most recent directing credits include Fool for Love for the 2010 Winnipeg Fringe Festival and last year's BHTC premier production of Mike Bell’s Headspace. Tim Bandfield taught a puppetry course for the Theatre Program at U of M in the fall of 2010. Tim was most recently involved in A Fish's Wish for the 2010 Winnipeg Fringe Festival and in last season’s BHTC production of Headspace.

Tickets are $15 for Adults, $12 for Students and Seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the door, or for reservations and group discounts contact the 24hr box office at 474-6880.

Performances at the Gas Station Arts Centre

as part of the MTC 2011 Master Playwright Festival, StrindbergFest

7:00pm January 21st – 22nd, 24th -29th,

2:00pm January 22nd, 29th and 30th,

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