Life is a dream

UK
The Times "Fiercely astute.... Ormerod's stunning green door design, which maintains the backdrop throughout, deftly allows the atmosphere to oscillate between dream and nightmare."
The Stage “Absorbing, dreamlike."
WhatsOnStage "Declan Donnellan's direction has an eye for the unsettling horror of Sigismund's lifelong confinement and subsequent gaslighting."
BroadwayWorld “An emerald fever dream... The vision is of a Lynchian nightmare: a single wall lines the back of the stage with the looming emptiness of the Barbican Theatre cloaked in darkness behind it. Characters appear through the doors with a Looney Tunes-like surrealism conjured from the liminal space behind it."
The Guardian “Combines the optics of a garish dream with unsettling antics."
Theatre Weekly “The show's cast, an ensemble of just nine players, is a company of masters. They balance the show's intricate philosophical commentary with comedy bordering on slapstick and performances grounded in realism."

SPAIN
El País “In Donnellan's production, joy and delicacy contrast intensely with the depth of tragedy".
ABC “A rollercoaster of surprises... Uncomfortable, controversial, brilliant."
La Última Bambalina “Exceptional, highly original and surprising... we don't remember having seen a more original, daring and transgressive staging of La vida es sueño."
Memorias de un Tiquis-Miquis “Surprising and moving."
El Confidencial “Donnellan exposes the prodigious work of the actors. He demands of them a versatility and an intensity that swings from physicality to introspection, from laughter to mourning, from lightness to the weight of chains."