Stan Lai’s A Dream Like a Dream 如夢之夢

"In a story, someone had a dream; In that dream, someone told a story.”

MIT Theater Presents

A Dream Like a Dream

如夢之夢

a play by Stan Lai 賴聲川

directed by Jay Scheib with Xinyu Xu ‘25

Meteor of the Chinese contemporary theater, Stan Lai's 賴聲川 "A Dream like a Dream," 如夢之夢 told through the eyes of over 100 characters on-stage, off-stage, back-stage and beyond. From Shanghai to Paris and back. Paths intertwine and aspirations collide along a spiral littered with life in an epic and immersive meditation on our most unexpected and unfathomable desires, passionate loves, losses, jubilance, loneliness, and laughter.

Performed by MIT Students and members of the MIT community

designed by Joseph Lark-Riley, Christian Frederickson, Shanise DeSilva, Anna Borou Yu, Peter Torpey, and Xinyu Xu, director of Production Maggie Moore, Stage management by Debra Acquavella and Joanna Xuanye Su, Directed by Jay Scheib with Xinyu Xu ‘25

All Performances at W97

345 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139
Part 1 — Thursday, November 13 (7.30p)

Part 2 — Friday, November 14 (7.30p)

Part 1&2 — with included meal break! — Saturday, November 15 (3.30p + 7.30p)

Part 1 — Thursday, November 20 (7.30p)

Part 2 — Friday, November 21 (7.30p)

Part 1&2 — with included meal break! — Saturday, November 22 (3.30p + 7.30p)

This production has been made possible with the generous support and funding of the MIT Center for Art Science and Technology, the DeFlorez Fund for Humour, and the Council for the Arts at MIT.

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