# A Dream Play (Fall 2016) ![The company of A Dream Play in and around a coffin ](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2025-07/161109TDMDreamPlayREH-586.jpg?itok=76G_jHsd) ## expand\_more ![Poster for A Dream Play](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-07/dream_play_reduced.jpg?itok=uGxM3frn) By August Strindberg Adapted and Directed by Daniel Kramer Presented by Theater, Dance & Media ### PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES Farkas Hall Friday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 12 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 16 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 18 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be available through the Harvard Box Office, temporarily located at Farkas Hall (10 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, MA 02138) and available by phone (617.496.2222) and [online](http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice) at the start of the fall semester. ### ABOUT This fall, Theater, Dance & Media will present Strindberg’s ***A DREAM PLAY***, adapted and directed by Daniel Kramer, at Farkas Hall. Daniel is a Visiting Professor in TDM and an award winning theater, opera and dance director based London where he is Artistic Director of English National Opera. In Kramer’s pared down, physically aggressive interpretation, Agnes, daughter of the Gods, snaps through space and time, witnessing and experiencing the struggles of daily life under the illusory Dream of Happiness. ### CAST By Agnes … Karoline Xu Poet, Voice of Indra … Aislinn Brophy Officer … Ricky Davis Jr. Lawyer, Father … John Creed Glazier, She, Boxing Ring Girl … Charlotte Stoiber Quarantine Master, Police, Blind Man, Voice of Indra … Matthew Morrison Christine, Toilet Paper Roll … Eliya Smith Lena, Pianist, Milk Bottle … Lindsey Ruggles Bill Poster, He … Marvin Merritt Edith … Adrienne Powell Handyman 1 & 2, Body Parts Vendor, Teacher … Sasha Hirsch Stagedoor Keeper, Mother … Sabrina Wu ### STAFF Director … Daniel Kramer Producer … Dana Knox Stage Manager … Joe Valek Production Designer … Oana Botez Lighting Designer … Burke Brown Sound Designer … Tei Blow Props Designer … Madie Hays Dramaturg … James Montaño Production Supervisor … Andrew Gitchel Technical Director … Johnny Gill Assistant Director … Thomas Peterson Assistant Stage Managers … Peng Zhu and David Mugi Scenic Assistant … Sam Hagen Costume/Scenic Assistant … Connie Zhao Lighting Assistant … Sarah Grammar Sound Assistants … Eliza Mantz and Kim Thomas ![Actors for A Dream Play surrounded by trash](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-07/161109TDMDreamPlayREH-232.jpg?itok=BVrYfNpP) ![Aislinn Brophy in front of a coffin in A Dream Play](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-07/161109TDMDreamPlayREH-596.jpg?itok=bp0Q3H6G) ![Karoline in A Dream Play](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/2025-07/161109TDMDreamPlayREH-575.jpg) ![Actors in a reflective glass house in A Dream Play](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/2025-07/161109TDMDreamPlayREH-127.jpg)