town’s dramatic theatre, declares that she will immediately mount Strindberg’s Dream Play, with herself and Helena Ekdahl (her mother-in-law) playing principal parts. Handed Strindberg’s playscript, and concluding the film, Helena reads aloud to her grandson, Alexander: “Everything can happen. Everything is possible and probable. Time and space do not exist. On a flimsy framework of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns.” An edited version by Caryl Churchill was staged at the National Theatre in London in 2005. The edited version was brought to other areas too, such as Edge Theatre Ensemble in Seattle and Jobsite Theater in Tampa, and was brought to Sheffield's Drama Studio in February 2012. A new adaptation by Emma Reay was performed at Oxford Playhouse in 2011. Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1, playwright Alfian Sa'at's loose adaptation, premiered in Singapore in 2000 and was re-staged in 2014. Footnotes References . Everdell, William R., "August Strindberg: Staging a Broken Dream 1907" in The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth Century Thought, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997 Schroeder, Jonathan, Stenport, Anna W., and Szalczer, Ezster (eds.) August Strindberg and Visual Culture: The Emergence of Optical Modernity in Image, Text and Theatre, London: Bloomsbury, 2019. External links 1901 plays Plays by August Strindberg Expressionist plays Dreams in theatre