Overview

Collection of three plays by Spanish Golden Age playwright Pedro Calderon, all translated by British playwright, poet and novelist Adrian Mitchell.  In The Mayor of Zalamea, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre, peasants' honour clashes with military discipline. Life's a Dream is Calderon's most famous philosophical play. The Great Theatre of the World is an allegorical work that would originally have been performed in the street to the accompaniment of music and dancing.