Location: Donmar Warehouse Theatre Type of production: Play Opened: 08 October 2009

Booking until: 28 November 2009

Running time: 2 Hrs 30 Mins

Author/Playwright: Pedro Calderon, adapted by H.Edmundson

Director: Jonathan Munby



Synopsis:

To protect the country from the horrors prophesied, Segismundo is condemned for all eternity. Banished to a secret world high in the mountains and cut off from the sun, he can only dream of a life reversed: of palaces, empires, freedom and revenge.

Helen Edmundson's new version of Calderon's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical kingdom.