Without the curtain falling, the scene is changed, and Indra’s Daughter finds herself in the Lawyer’s office later, she marries the Lawyer and has a baby, but then the scene switches to the back door of the theater again, where the Officer is still waiting for the actress. (As in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, the audience watches a character waiting for something that never happens, a premonition of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot). The Daughter watches as the Officer has a vision of his dead mother and then waits, apparently for years, for his beloved, an actress, to come out the back door of a theater. She descends from a cloud to a castle built on a dung-heap and surmounted by a flower bud. In the play, the Daughter of Indra, the king of the gods in ancient Hinduism, comes down to earth to try to understand human suffering. ![]() ![]() Like Strindberg’s other dream plays, which were inspired in part by Ibsen’s Peer Gynt and When We Dead Awaken, the play seems to announce the replacement of well-defined characters, the plays divide personality into multiple parts. ![]() Like Pirandello’s six characters in search of an author, the main figures in August Strindberg‘s A Dream Play (1902) are known by their social roles, rather than names: the Officer, the Lawyer, the Doorkeeper, the Poet.
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