Andrew Saito, Cutting Ball Theater, David Sinaiko, local theater, Paige Rogers, Pedro Calderón de la B..., plays, theater review Andrew Saito, Cutting Ball Theater, David Sinaiko, local theater, Paige Rogers, Pedro Calderón de la B..., plays, theater review

Cutting Ball pumps energy into vivid Dream

What a rare treat to have had two productions of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Life Is a Dream on local stages this year. First there was California Shakespeare Theater's production (read my review here), and now we have a brisk, streamlined version from Cutting Ball Theater and its resident playwright, Andrew Saito at the EXIT on Taylor.

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Cal Shakes dreams a Dream under the stars

There's so much talk about nature and stars in Life Is a Dream that it seems perfectly natural to be sitting outside on a temperate summer night watching Pedro Calderón de la Barca's 1635 play about thwarting destiny and connecting to the deepest truths of human existence.

California Shakespeare Theater's production of Dream, a beautiful if thorny play, offers the chance to see a work that is all too rarely performed.

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