Landscapes of the Mind’s Eye: The Giant Blue Hand and Marble

Abstract

Marina Carr’s Dream Play Cycle threads elusive territories to shape the internal life where, as Hamlet says, ‘A dream itself is but a shadow’. Dreams, like theatre, operate through images to express the imago or metaphysical form of the imagination and are an intrinsic aspect of Carr’s creative process: ‘Dreams help me a lot. […] Writing from the unconscious seems the best place, of course tempered with the conscious, but I think it is the truest’.