Out of the Wings

La vida es sueño (1635), Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Production in Spanish

Production in English

Productions in Spanish

La vida es sueño (Calixto Bieito)

Details

Director: Calixto Bieito
Production company: Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico
Dates: 2000
Venue: Teatro de la Comedia
Location: Madrid, Spain

Further information

The version was done by the director of the production, Calixto Bieito. The production toured from the Edinburgh Festival, to Barcelona, to London, Almagro and Madrid.

Videos from the production are available online through the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.

La vida es sueño (Pedro Manuel Villora)

Details: Director: Pedro Manuel Villora
Production company: Compañía Siglo de Oro
Dates: from December 2008 to 21 December 2008
Venue: Teatro Albéniz
Location: Madrid, Spain
Critical response: Some Spanish critics compared the style of this production to the film 'The Matrix'.
Further information: See the Absolut Madrid website listing

Productions in English

Life’s a Dream (John Barton)

Details: Director: John Barton
Based on translation: Life's A Dream (1990) by Adrian Mitchell , John Barton
Production company: Royal Shakespeare Company
Dates: November 1983
Location: Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
Further information: Also played at the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle, February 1984 and at The Pit, Barbican, London, May 1984

Life’s a Dream (Matthew Warchus)

Details: Director: Matthew Warchus
Based on translation: Life is a Dream (1991) by Gwynne Edwards
Dates: from 1 June 1992 to 20 June 1992
Venue: West Yorkshire Playhouse
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom

Life is a Dream (Calixto Bieito)

Details: Director: Calixto Bieito
Based on translation: Life is a Dream (1998) by John Clifford
Dates: from 1998 to 1999
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Critical response: The adaptation was staged in Edinburgh, London, and New York in 1998 and 1999, and drew upon John Clifford’s 1998 translation

Life is a Dream (JoAnne Akalaitis)

Details: Director: JoAnne Akalaitis
Based on translation: Life's A Dream (1990) by Adrian Mitchell , John Barton
Dates: 1999
Venue: Court Theatre
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Further information: The production was an adaptation based on Mitchell and Barton's text.

Life is a Dream (David Pasto)

Details: Director: David Pasto
Based on translation: Life is a Dream (1998) by John Clifford
Production company: Oklahoma City Theatre Company
Dates: April 2004
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Critical response: Review of the production in Comedia Performance 2.1 (Spring 2005) by Christopher Weimer

Life is a Dream (Mariana Althaus)

Details: Director: Mariana Althaus
Based on translation: Life is a Dream by Harley Erdman
Production company: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dates: from 30 April 2005 to 7 May 2005
Venue: Curtain Theatre
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Critical response: See the link to Harley Erdman’s translation performed at UMass [Accessed June 2010]

Sueño (Joseph Hanreddy)

Details: Director: Joseph Hanreddy
Based on translation: Sueño (1999) by José Rivera
Production company: Quadracci Powerhouse Theater
Dates: from 18 January 2006 to 18 February 2006
Venue: Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Critical response: Review published in Comedia Performance 4.1 (2007) by Christopher Weimer.
Further information: Adapted by José Rivera

Life is a Dream (Kate Whoriskey)

Details: Director: Kate Whoriskey
Based on translation: Life is a Dream by Nilo Cruz
Dates: from 2 February 2007 to 11 March 2007
Venue: South Coast Repertory
Location: Costa Mesa, California, United States
Critical response: Review of the performance published in Comedia Performance 5.1 (Spring 2008) by Bonnie L. Gasior.

Life’s a Dream (Barry Brunetti)

Details: Director: Barry Brunetti
Based on translation: Life's A Dream (1990) by Adrian Mitchell , John Barton
Production company: The Theater School at DePaul University
Dates: from 9 February 2007 to 18 February 2007
Venue: Merle Reskin Theater
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Critical response: Review of the production in Comedia Performance 5.1 (Spring 2008) by Jorge Abril Sánchez.

Life Is a Dream (Quiche Stone)

Details: Director: Quiche Stone
Based on translation: Life Is a Dream (2006) by Gregary Racz
Production company: Long Island University, Brooklyn
Dates: from 28 March 2007 to 1 April 2007
Venue: The Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Life is a Dream (Jonathan Munby)

Details: Director: Jonathan Munby
Based on translation: Life Is a Dream (2009) by Helen Edmundson
Dates: from 8 October 2009 to 28 November 2009
Venue: Donmar Warehouse
Location: London, United Kingdom