Twelve Dreams

Twelve Dreams
Written byJames Lapine
Characters
  • Charles Hatrick
  • Emma Hatrick
  • Jenny
  • Professor
Date premieredDecember 22, 1981
Place premieredThe Public Theater, New York City, New York
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama

Twelve Dreams is a 1981 play by James Lapine that was inspired by a case study contained in Carl Jung's 1964 book Man and His Symbols. The case concerns a 10-year-old girl who gave her father, a psychiatrist, an unusual Christmas present—a handwritten booklet describing twelve dreams that she had had when she was eight years old.

The play was first performed as a work-in-progress in 1978.[1] A more complete version was performed in 1981–1982, and it was revived in 1995.[2]

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  2. ^ Canby, Vincent. "Theater Review; Fleshing Out Jung's Theory", The New York Times, June 9, 1995