I am watching a group of actors in rehearsing a play. There is the typical backstage conflict as actors ask questions about motivation, the director makes demands, staging doesn’t work, and the set and scenery have to be perfected. All of this works in counterpoint to the play itself which, because of the interruptions and pre-performance chaos, is never seen in its entirety.

Then in the second act, we see the actual performance, the play that had been discussed, staged, debated, argued, and finally now performed and I realize that the first part of the dream was actually the first part of the play and the significance of the subtext, the counterpoint that the first act plays off the second, is fully realized.

(When I woke up I thought that this would make an interesting script but the dream did not give me enough concrete detail off which to work. What is the play about? Who are the performers? What about the director and producer(s)? Who is ego driven? Who is motivated by art? So although it might make an interesting production, I have no clue how I would begin writing it. *shrug*)