ABSTRACT
As might be expected, staging is a major problem in Strindberg’s dream plays. They demanded technical resources that did not exist at the beginning of the century; and even Strindberg’s own Intimate Theatre never produced A Dream Play, although the original intention in founding it was to provide suitable performance conditions for precisely this, following what Strindberg felt was the failure of the play’s first production six months earlier (April 1907).‘The whole performance became “a phenomenon of materialization” instead of the intended dematerialization’1-a problem that equally affected Reinhardt’s 1921 production, which presented a tableau of suffering human faces by rows of real actors, clothed in black and with whitened, staring features.
