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Encore Theatre, 2009
 
Miles (Ray Williamson) looks set for a successful career as a senior consultant at a local hospital.  Popular with his colleagues, possessed of a good bedside manner, it seems that nothing will stand in his way.  Except, perhaps, for his dreams of an accident that happened in the past, that left one of his patients a virtual catatonic, hooked up to a life-support machine.
 
His wife Ruth (Cal Crossfield) looks after his two children; like her husband, she seems to have a settled domestic life, with very little to vex her.  But she is also tormented by the past - in one dramatic sequence she is forced by her passenger Hermione (Audrey Coldron) to turn down a street where an accident took place, in which Ruth was somehow involved.  In the end Ruth cannot deal with her past, and turns to drink as a crutch.
 
Dream is a salutary piece, proving beyond doubt that individuals cannot forget their pasts, however much they might try to suppress them.  Perhaps it is better to stand up and confront them, even if that means potentially ruining one's future.  Directed by Colin Lewisohn and performed by the excellent Encore Theatre Company, who have regularly produced a series of dramas - both recorded and live - in the north of England, this is definitely worth a listen.