Dream Poetics as a Method of Performance Analysis
Dream Poetics as a Method of Performance Analysis

Summary/Abstract: „Theatre has often and from different bases (phenomenological, psychoanalytic) been compared to a dream. Since theatre as an art form is considered to be an imitator of life, and dreams are also commonly made from the stuff of life, a third category is thereby introduced – life. Several classic works in drama are built from the union of life, theatre and dream, such as Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Calderón’s Life Is a Dream, August Strindberg’s The Way to Damascus and A Dream Play. In my paper, I will focus on the poetic similarity between dream and theatre, by applying dream poetics in my analysis of the staging of Julia by Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper (premiered in 2004 in the Estonian Drama Theatre). In European cultures, attitudes towards dreams can be roughly divided into three:”[…]

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