LIFE IS A DREAM
By Calderón de la Barca, in a new version by Helen Edmundson
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Donmar Warehouse, London
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Director - Jonathan Munby
Designer - Angela Davies
Lighting Designer – Neil Austin
Music - Dominic Haslam
Sound Design – Christopher Shutt
Movement - Mike Ashcroft -
Segismundo – Dominic West
Rosaura – Kate Fleetwood
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Critics Choice. Jonathan Munby’s rich and startling production winds you tightly in a glittering web of dreams.
TIME OUT
★★★★★
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Critics Choice. Thrillingly theatricality to Jonathan Munby’s vibrantly textured production.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
★★★★★
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Critics Choice. I was transfixed by the entire evening’s extraordinary tale…
DAILY MAIL
★★★★★
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Critics Choice. The acting is a joy to behold…
GUARDIAN
★★★★
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A rich and disconcerting play... the cast undoubtedly brings this rich, haunting drama vivid life, catching its humour as well as its profundity.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
★★★★
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Jonathan Munby’s revival, shrewd… revival at the Donmar.
INDEPENDENT
★★★★
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Wired, weird and a bit wonderful…
THE TIMES
★★★★
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Jonathan Munby's glowering revival delivers like a branding iron the power of the play, in which brutality is administered along with great waves of philosophy and a winged imagination.
OBSERVER