is plays were too realistic, and the effects of thoseplays were much too weak. Soon he decided to be more expressionist inhis plays. Those expressionistic plays came in two parts. First in1914 to 1915 then from 1919 to 1922. These plays were more successfulthen his realistic plays were. Strindberg kept writing throughout hislife, but eventually died of stomach cancer in May of 1912.A Dream Play was maybe the first drama to engage a dream-likereality as a genre in itself. Traditionally plays have included scenesillustrating dreams or nightmares, but none have based an entire playaround them. By doing this, Strindberg abandoned conventionalperceptions of time and space. In this play he gave off an illusion ofhow the dream world was. A Dream Play was written in 1901 and firstproduced in 1907. A Dream Plays premiere was at the Swedish Theatreon April 17, 1907 with Harriet Bosse (who was his third wife) as Indrasdaughter. Its most successful premiere was in Germany on March 17,1916. He believed that all of man kind was placed on a trial. It wasone of Strindbergs most personal plays. He combined the techniques ofdramatic with his own conception of psychology, including unaffecteddialogue, simple scenery, and the use of stage props as symbols. Withthat he began a new movement in European drama. In A Dream Play, thedaughter of God comes to Earth - and discovers that things are every bitas bad as she'd heard - and worse.A Dream Play largely established theatrical modernism. Somehistorians place modernism as starting with the Industrial revolution. Modernism first became evident in art works around 1850 with the realistmovement, then impressionism. It is a cultural movement which rebelledagainst Victorian ideals. Modernists emphasized the ways in whichhumans were part of and responsible to nature. They argued for multipleways of looking at the world. Which is exactly what Strindberg did witha dream play. He took reality, and m...
