Sueño

From the BFA Acting 3rd Year Company
Sueño BFA Acting
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Sueño 

Translated and adapted by José Rivera.

From the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Presented by the BFA Acting 3rd Year Company
Directed by JL Rey 
Assistant Directed and Stage Managed by Ben Lohrberg 
Vocal Coach: Keely Wolter 
Movement Coach: Markell Kiefer 
Streaming virtually on YouTube 
February 26 & 27, 2021 at 7:30pm CST, February 28, 2021 at 2pm CST

The show runs approximately 2 hours, including two 5-minute intermissions. 

Click on each date for the link to the performance! 
Friday, February 26th @ 7:30pm CST
Saturday, February 27th @ 7:30pm CST
Sunday, February 28th @ 2:00pm CST

About the Play: 

Sueño is Obie Award-winning playwright José Rivera's translation and adaptation of Calderón de la Barca's classic Life Is a Dream. Set in 1635, this metaphysical drama—renowned as one of the jewels of the Spanish Golden Age—Sueño follows the life of young Prince Segismundo, heir to the Spanish throne, who is imprisoned at birth when astrologers predicted his reign as king would result in the country's ruin. The brilliant, passionate prince is raised in isolation. His only companions are the nobleman Clotaldo and a God whose very existence he questions. When his father King Basilio finds his own life ending without a legitimate heir, he releases Segismundo and places him on the throne. If Segismundo is gentle and civilized, Basilio reasons, he will be allowed to reign. If he is as wild and barbaric as the stars predicted he'll be sent back to his imprisonment and told that his brief moment of freedom and power was only a dream. When the tormented Segismundo demonstrates the worst of the astrologers' fears and he's sent back to the tower, he's forever unable to distinguish between real life and the world of dreams. Sueño is written in sharp contemporary language but it nevertheless seeks to ask the eternal questions posed by Calderón: What is man—an angel or an animal? What is honor? What is freedom? If life is a dream, who is dreaming us? Could God Himself be the greatest dream of all?

 

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