A prince is born in a faraway palace.
His horoscope reads that he will destroy his kingdom.
The king decides to hide him from the world.
And so the prince lives alone, locked away for twenty-five years.
Until, one day, a young woman and her servant
on a quest for revenge stumble across a tower in the mountains...
UCSB's Department of Theater and Dance & IV Arts proudly present Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Life is a Dream. This three-hundred year old Spanish Golden Age drama has been adapted from Nilo Cruz's contemporary text for the digital stage. Join us for this surreal, swashbuckling fable that asks us all: is our fate written in our own ink, or in the stars?