Twelve dreams / by James Lapine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lapine, James.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terminally ill children--New England--Drama.

Terminally ill children.

Girls--New England--Psychology--Drama.

Girls.

Children's dreams--Drama.

Children's dreams.

Girls--Psychology.

New England.

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 76 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

[Book club edition].

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : N. Doubleday, [1982]

Summary:

An exploration of love, loss, and fate, this play was inspired by an actual case history recorded by Carl Jung. In the play, Emma presents a booklet of her dreams to her psychiatrist father, Charles Hatrick, for Christmas. Still mourning his wife's death, Emma's father is confounded by her dreams and shares the booklet with his mentor, the Professor, who is visiting from abroad. The structure of the play sets Emma's daily life against a re-creation of her dreams, in which key roles are played by Emma's governess, her best friend, a rich neurotic her father is treating, her ballet teacher, and a young protege of her father. The disturbing dreams are described by the Professor as those of an older person facing death. Eventually, we learn that Emma is in fact fatally ill.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

8742250