{"id":2159,"date":"2013-09-08T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T15:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2023-07-08T16:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T19:51:30","slug":"like-dreaming-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Like Dreaming Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2175\" alt=\"dreaming backwards\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-1024x337.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Like Dreaming Backwards<\/em>, a play by Kellie Powell is a dark and heavy play exploring one girl&#8217;s struggle against Depressive Psychosis and how it affects the people around her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nell hears the voices of people she knows in her head urging her toward suicide and the audience also hears from people who are profoundly affected by her choice to take her own life. I liked being rooted inside Nell, to hear the same damning voices and to see the tricks that they play on her attempts at resistance, masking themselves as her conscience and her own inner voice. I would love to see Powell play more with these characters, giving them more specificity and depth, as well as higher stakes and, perhaps, a more menacing and terrifying quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lisa Davison gives a compelling performance as the tortured Nell. She is beaten down from the beginning and the grains of hope she clings to are small and transitory. These characters are still more prototypes than individuals, representing a common mixture for Depressive Psychosis, but Powell hasn\u2019t carved out the idiosyncrasies of these specific people and their unique story yet. This well help to give a richer sense of humanity and complexity to Nell, her father and her ex boyfriend especially and it will give the actors more to work with in creating interesting individuals. It can also be very powerful to juxtapose very dark moments with moments of brightness, so it may be worth it for Powell to explore Nell\u2019s former happiness and joy as well as her current despair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an important subject for us to be exploring through the Arts and bringing to our communities through storytelling and theatre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TWISI Rating:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2-and-a-half-stars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2137\" alt=\"2-and-a-half-stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2-and-a-half-stars-300x69.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2-and-a-half-stars-300x69.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2-and-a-half-stars.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Like Dreaming Backwards<\/em> at the Atlantic Fringe Festival has closed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Dreaming Backwards, a play by Kellie Powell is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4671],"tags":[3212,5122,5123],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-halifax-fringe","tag-kellie-powell","tag-lisa-davison"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Like Dreaming Backwards - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; Music Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Like Dreaming Backwards - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; Music Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Like Dreaming Backwards, a play by Kellie Powell is a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Way I See It Theatre &amp; Music Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/twisihalifax\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-09-08T15:45:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-08T19:51:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amanda Campbell\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amanda Campbell\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Amanda Campbell\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2acdb91c67a7c73bbe572ed62f39cf80\"},\"headline\":\"Like Dreaming Backwards\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-09-08T15:45:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-08T19:51:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159\"},\"wordCount\":299,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"halifax fringe\",\"kellie powell\",\"lisa davison\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Review\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159\",\"name\":\"Like Dreaming Backwards - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; Music Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-09-08T15:45:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-08T19:51:30+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Like Dreaming Backwards\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Way I See It Theatre\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cropped-twisi-header-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cropped-twisi-header-1.png\",\"width\":4831,\"height\":1568,\"caption\":\"The Way I See It Theatre\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/twisihalifax\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/twisiblog\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2acdb91c67a7c73bbe572ed62f39cf80\",\"name\":\"Amanda Campbell\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Amanda Campbell\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Like Dreaming Backwards - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; Music Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Like Dreaming Backwards - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; Music Blog","og_description":"Like Dreaming Backwards, a play by Kellie Powell is a","og_url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159","og_site_name":"The Way I See It Theatre &amp; Music Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/twisihalifax","article_published_time":"2013-09-08T15:45:45+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-08T19:51:30+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Amanda Campbell","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Amanda Campbell","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159"},"author":{"name":"Amanda Campbell","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2acdb91c67a7c73bbe572ed62f39cf80"},"headline":"Like Dreaming Backwards","datePublished":"2013-09-08T15:45:45+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-08T19:51:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159"},"wordCount":299,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg","keywords":["halifax fringe","kellie powell","lisa davison"],"articleSection":["Review"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159","url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159","name":"Like Dreaming Backwards - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; Music Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg","datePublished":"2013-09-08T15:45:45+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-08T19:51:30+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dreaming-backwards-300x98.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2159#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Like Dreaming Backwards"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/","name":"The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#organization","name":"The Way I See It Theatre","url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cropped-twisi-header-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cropped-twisi-header-1.png","width":4831,"height":1568,"caption":"The Way I See It Theatre"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/twisihalifax","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/twisiblog\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2acdb91c67a7c73bbe572ed62f39cf80","name":"Amanda Campbell","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e0e1a35d85359766c1e9bf58b3b4e4d926456f42e1b829f3cb745235d605f4e4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Amanda Campbell"},"url":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}