A suitably phantasmagoical vision in strong teamwork by Calderón's compatriots Dream versus reality, fate and free will, love and death, nature versus nurture: they're all here in Calderón de la Barca' s ever-startling baroque panopticon, a play so precociously meta that every theatrical game from Pirandello onwards deserves the epithet "Calderonian".
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:12AM on April 15, 2023