Life’s a Dream

Part fairy tale, part comedy of errors, part philosophical morality tale and part debate of free will versus fate, Life's A Dream illuminates the ultimate solitude of every individual for whom other people and the world can be as deceitful and capricious as a dream.

King Basilio has for years heeded the omen warning that his son, Prince Sigismund, would grow up to be a tyrant. Basilio keeps Sigismund imprisoned in a tower, and his identity hidden from the kingdom's citizens. Deciding to find out if the prophecy is true, the king frees his now grown son, giving him the power to rule the kingdom. The Prince's overwhelming immersion into his position of royalty and newfound power manifests itself as rage, and his conduct becomes impulsive and violent. Basilio again imprisons his son and tries to convince the Prince that his brief day as royalty was but a dream.