Life is
a Dream
- 2-21 Sep 25 Downstairs Theatre
Life is
a Dream
A re-imagining of La Vida es Sueño
by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Created by Claudia Osborne
and Solomon Thomas
- Venue Downstairs Theatre
- Dates 2-21 Sep 25
- Presented by
- Supported by
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Imagine your entire life has been confined to one room. Your only source of entertainment is the man who holds you captive, and the footage he’s taken of you 24 hours a day since the moment you were born. For eighteen years, this has been your life. Then one day you’re drugged, taken to a castle, and told you’re the Prince of Poland.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play about fate, free will and the boundaries of reality is re-imagined by theatre makers Claudia Osborne (FERVOUR.) and Solomon Thomas (re:group performance collective).
What a strange and intoxicating half-waking dream… With an aptly fervent hand, director Claudia Osborne has enacted a singular vision with this sparsely plotted and engrossing work, and her cast and creative team is with her all the way
Audrey Journal on Destroy, She Said (FERVOUR. 25A 2022)
Experimental in form, intimate in emotion, and often oblique, re:group performance collective’s theatre productions stretch the possibilities of the artform to strange new places while telling small, personal stories
Time Out on POV (re:group 25A 2024)
Performance Times
Upcoming Performances
Weekly Times
- tuesday 6:45PM
Except 2 Sep at 7:45pm
- wednesday 6:45PM
No performance on 3 Sep
- thursday 7:45PM
- friday 7:45PM
- saturday 2:15PM & 7:45PM
- sunday 5:15PM
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Special Performance
TEAM
- Claudia Osborne
Director
Read full bioClaudia is a Sydney-based theatre director, and the co-director of independent theatre company, FERVOUR. She has a Masters in directing for performance from NIDA. Her directing credits include BURN WITCH BURN (FERVOUR/Old Fitz), Picnic At Hanging Rock (NIDA), Destroy, She Said (FERVOUR/25A), Delilah By The Hour (FERVOUR/Brand X Flying Nun), Homesick (Bontom, Old 505), The […]
Claudia Osborne
Claudia is a Sydney-based theatre director, and the co-director of independent theatre company, FERVOUR. She has a Masters in directing for performance from NIDA. Her directing credits include BURN WITCH BURN (FERVOUR/Old Fitz), Picnic At Hanging Rock (NIDA), Destroy, She Said (FERVOUR/25A), Delilah By The Hour (FERVOUR/Brand X Flying Nun), Homesick (Bontom, Old 505), The Lady or the Tiger (FERVOUR), LULU: A Modern Sex Tragedy (NIDA), The Library of Babel (FERVOUR), and HeySorryGottaGoBye (FERVOUR). As an assistant director; Love and Information (NIDA dir. Anthea Williams), The Cherry Orchard (Belvoir dir. Eamon Flack), The Real Thing (Sydney Theatre Company dir. Simon Phillips), and Titus Andronicus (Bell Shakespeare dir. Adena Jacobs). In 2020, Claudia was one of four emerging practitioners who completed a three-month theatre residency as part of the Create NSW and Griffin Theatre Company Incubator Fellowship.
- Solomon Thomas
Video DesignerSolomon Thomas
- Kelsey Lee
Lighting Designer
Read full bioKelsey is a lighting, set and costume designer for theatre, dance and events. Previously for Belvoir she was the Lighting Designer for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, A Room of One’s Own; and Associate Lighting Designer for Blue, At What Cost?. Other credits include Lighting Designer: Mutiara (Marrugeku); Gurr Era Op (Force […]
Kelsey Lee
Kelsey is a lighting, set and costume designer for theatre, dance and events. Previously for Belvoir she was the Lighting Designer for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, A Room of One’s Own; and Associate Lighting Designer for Blue, At What Cost?. Other credits include Lighting Designer: Mutiara (Marrugeku); Gurr Era Op (Force Majeure); The Lewis Trilogy; Sex Magick; Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre Company), The Comedy Of Errors (Bell Shakespeare); Tell Me On A Sunday (Hayes Theatre); Masterclass; The Memory of Water; A Letter For Molly (Ensemble Theatre); Queen Fatima (NToP); Jali (Aya Productions, Griffin Theatre Company); Extinction of the Learned Response, Skyduck, Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25A); April Aardvark (ATYP); Good Dog; If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You (Greendoor Theatre Company). Set & Costume Designer Somos (Sydney Dance Company). Set Designer: Nothing; A Practical Guide To Self Defence (NTofP). Costume Designer: Silence and Rapture (Sydney Dance Company & ACO), Switzerland (Ensemble Theatre). Co-production Designer & Lighting Designer: Destroy, She Said (Belvoir’s 25A). Set & Lighting Designer: An Ox Stand On My Tongue (Belvoir 25A). Lighting, Set & Costume: Lulu: A Modern Sex Tragedy (NIDA), Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (ACO). Associate Lighting Designer Cut The Sky (Marrugeku).
- Imogen Gardam
DramaturgImogen Gardam
- Malcolm Whittaker
Creative ProducerMalcolm Whittaker
- Intimate Spectacle
AdministrationIntimate Spectacle
