All the world's a stage

In the dream, i’m ?backstage in an old wooden theater like from olden days. It was once pretty fancy but it’s been deserted for a long time it looks like. Red velvet curtains and scrolly carvings in the wood but the velvet is faded and dusty and the wood needs to be oiled and polished.

There’s a man at a desk, writing. I come up behind him and it’s an author of a book i loved and i tell him how much i enjoyed his part of the book. He tells me that he and the other writer are updating the story and are going to present it on stage later. I’m so excited about it and ask where the other writer is. He points me in a direction that takes me through the door onto the stage. I see the other man holding a sheaf of papers that is the rewritten story. As i approach i see that he’s mapping out stage directions for the production. He acknowledges me like he knows me and tells me that the plan is to have Supertramp open and ?? close the show. I immediately think Crisis? What Crisis? but have a picture of the cover of Crime of the Century in my mind. We discuss how much we enjoyed books and music from the seventies. I suggest maybe Golden Earring should open with Radar Love and he seems open to that idea.


The book(s) were some kind of fantasy tale in two volumes. Not Lord of the Rings but something similar. I don’t think they’re books from the awake world but i get a sense of A Midsummer Night’s Dream type of story with a guy wearing a donkey head. Bottom. Which would go along with the idea of a stage play. I can’t remember the other band that was going to play. Supertramp and…. it’s right there on the edge of remembering. It feels like prog rock and drums. ELP maybe? Hmm. That doesn’t feel right. Boston? Because i remember when the man said Supertramp would open and ?? would close, that i told him i though ?? should open and Supertramp should close but i also thought that the audience would like to hear Radar Love. Hmm. Yes. Boston i’m pretty sure. The cover of the first album could have been in the dream. The men were familiar to me but i have no idea who they were really. They looked like Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies but they were authors. Edger Allen Poe times two? I don’t know what the message is but it was a happy feeling dream.