| Photography: | Sasha Rendulic |
| Screenplay: | I. Michael Toth |
| Music: | Patricia Barber |
| Production: | Christopher Gentry |
| Sales: | GBW Films |
Mark is an actor who moves to Chicago where he finds work acting in The Dream Play by August Strindberg at a local theatre. During rehearsals he makes new friends and clashes with the play’s eccentric and demanding director. Trying to master the multiple roles he was cast to play, he recollects a gray rainy day from his past when a chance encounter with a hitchhiker changed the course of his life and his identity. As the rehearsal process drags on, Mark realizes that opening night and payday are far off. Struggling to make ends meet, he answers an ad placed on the theatre’s message board by a mysterious young woman. This leads him to participating in a private play that will alter his perspective on acting, theatre and his own life. Mark discovers that he is in an ambiguous place where the difference between life and art, between real and make-believe disappears.
Having graduated from the Film and Television Production Department at the University of Arts in Belgrade, I. Michael Toth began his professional career as an assistant director to Srdjan Dragojević on a number of his feature films. He moved to the United States in 1987 and settled in Chicago where he has produced, directed, filmed and edited a number of short films and documentaries. He has also produced, directed and edited commercials and industrial videos for major corporations. He recently adapted for screen On the Open Road based on a play by Steve Tesich, Academy Award winning screenwriter for Breaking Away. The Dream Play is his second feature film.
