Rambert Dance Company

In a run-down rehearsal room, a director drifts off to sleep with images of the day’s rehearsals running through his mind. In his dreams the play is revisited, recast and replayed, and fantastic images of worlds far beyond his room appear.

Rambert presents a lavish spectacle and vivid piece of dance story-telling from Olivier Award-winning choreographer Kim Brandstrup.

Legendary filmmakers the Quay Brothers create an ever-changing, dream-like world, illuminated by Rambert’s world-class dancers with an orchestra playing the rich music of Witold Lutos?awski.

This contemporary re-imagining of Calderón’s Life is a Dream is a study of desires as recognisable in today’s mass-mediated world as at any time in the past 400 years: the longing for an authentic experience, and the need to dream.