

Christmas Dreams
Jon Robertson
THE STORY: Inspired by an actual case history denoted by Carl Jung, the play traces the story of a little New England girl, Emma, who makes a booklet of her dreams which she gives to her psychiatrist father, Charles Hatrick, for Christmas.
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"A brilliantly resourceful exploration into the recesses of the human mind, and the dark forces which psychoanalytic theory can summon forth—often with disquieting results. “TWELVE DREAMS has haunted James Lapine for a long time. This extraordinary play was first presented in 1978…Now Lapine has returned again to the material, producing a richer, smarter and immensely moving meditation on the significance of dreams and, more important this time around, on the unique bond between father and child.” —Variety. ”TWELVE DREAMS…draws its inspiration from a case study of Carl Jung's in which a young girl's dreams apparently foretold her death. In a Lincoln Center revival, the haunting logic of dreams, fusing the seemingly arbitrary and the seemingly inevitable, wove an ever tightening web of enchantment."
— Time Magazine
Twelve Dreams is a American play written by James Lapine and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1996).
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