La vida es sueño

A prince chained to a mountain. A young woman disguised as a man in search of revenge. Revolution, love, murder… but in Life is a Dream, is the real thing really real, or is it all a dream?
Director Declan Donnellan and designer Nick Ormerod bring their characteristic spirit to this play by Calderón de la Barca, the most famous of the Spanish Golden Age, giving priority to the actor, the text and the space. A green wall of doors welcomes the audience. When the lights go out, a relationship is established between the actor and the audience. We hear Calderón in our ear, asking: “What is life?” And his answer: “An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. Because all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams”.