About Dream of Me

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From Director, Hilary Krishnan:

This is a play about love. It was born out of our experiences and
memories — and now stands as a collection of dreams.
In resurrecting our own experiences with love and relationships,
we acknowledged a universal dichotomy: love inflicts upon us the
greatest of pain yet the greatest of joy. In our search to find a balance
between these two, we discovered that it lies in our most innocent
child-like worldview and our ability to take great risks without concern-
ing ourselves with the consequences. Isn’t it true that when we live
our life with unbridled abandon, we are able to discover so much more
about ourselves? In creating this play, we began to understand that
without our tragic life experiences, without heartbreak, we couldn’t
truly appreciate the beautiful moments.

The way we experience love is also shaped greatly by our surround-
ings. New York City is a place of great cultural diversity, the most intel-
lectual of minds, total sexual liberation and a vibrant youth. The pace
of our environment, the demands she places upon us, the urban aes-
thetic — all of these things play a big part in the development of
our relationships.

Each vignette in Dream of Me reveals a few of our secrets and contains some stories we’ve collected over the past few months. Their unity does not exist in traditional theatrical conventions. There is no beginning, middle and end. The glue that holds our play together is the
love we have for it, the love we have for each story told. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed creating them.

Buy your tickets to the Off-Broadway run of Dream of Me here