Life is a Dream used textual fragments of Charles L. Mee’s play of the same title to explore the relationship between mourning and ritual. Taking inspiration from the imagery within Mee’s writing, the piece enacted a series of death-rituals as a means of examining their potential, and the potential within the symbolic, to alter one’s relationship to great loss and to reignite meaning in a life frozen in time.

Produced by the Skidmore College Theater Department

Performed outside the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in 2017

Cast

Nicola Citera

Connor Chistofferson

Alex O’Shea

Allyson Schult

Bianca Thompson