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Fever/Dream

  • Sheila Callaghan
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573699245

Enjoyably stylish [with an] antic pace and witty aesthetic.

Washington Post

[Callaghan has] a keen eye for the outlandish. Exudes the kind of infectious zaniness that occasionally attracts cult followings.

Variety

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Opportunity for Spectacle
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Chained to his desk in the basement of customer service hell, Segis suddenly finds himself set free in the CEO's penthouse—but is it a dream? This raucous reinvention of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream gleefully skewers corporate America with razor-sharp wit.

REVIEWS:

Enjoyably stylish [with an] antic pace and witty aesthetic.

Washington Post

Ambitious, often uproarious.

City Paper

I can't remember the last time a play made me laugh so hard. Between the chuckles and belly laughs, the dialog is surprisingly layered, and gives the audience plenty to think about. Fever/Dream is about as funny as the sharpest Hollywood comedy, and far more rewarding.

BrightestYoungThings.com

[Callaghan has] a keen eye for the outlandish. Exudes the kind of infectious zaniness that occasionally attracts cult followings.

Variety

A pizzazz-filled concoction that skewers corporatism with a generous supply side of laughs. [Callaghan] is without doubt the purveyor of top-shelf American wit.

Metro Weekly
Premiere Production: Fever/Dream was first presented in a workshop production at the Occidental College Theater Department in in the fall of 2007. It was directed by Jessica Kubzansky. The play was subsequently presented in its professional world premiere by artistic director Howard Shalwitz and managing director Jeffery Herrmann at the Wooly mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, in June 2009. It was directed by Howard Shalwitz.
  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast

  • SEGIS
    ROSE
    CLAIRE
    FRED CLOTALDO
    SECURITY GUARDS
    STELLA STRONG
    ASTON MARTIN
    BILL BASIL
    ACCOUNTANTS
    4 ASSOCIATES
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    Chained to his desk in the basement of customer service hell, Segis suddenly finds himself set free in the CEO's penthouse—but is it a dream? This raucous reinvention of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream gleefully skewers corporate America with razor-sharp wit.

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