DREAM PALACE Plays Theatrelab 8/4-12

Dutch movement theatre director Linda Olthof returns for her third residency at Theaterlab this August with her LADYLAND PROJECT company.

After three weeks of rehearsal and development, she will premiere Dream Palace, a movement-based piece, August 4 through 12, 2010 at Theaterlab (137 West 14th St., between 6th and 7th Ave.).

A bride on her wedding day and two men. We see the bride when nobody's looking, we see her unconscious in the company of a man who's not the groom or is he..? We see her while she's losing her clothes along the way, ending up with only the veil still in her hair accompanying her as a sweet ghost. What happened on what they say was supposed to be the happiest day of her life?

Linda Olthof studied acting at the ArtEZ Academy of Theater in Arnhem, the Netherlands. She received her Bachelors of Theater in 1995. After graduation she continued studying Body and Voice with Zygmunt Molik (from Jerzy Grotowski's Theater Laboratory Poland) in Berlin. As an actress she worked with the Dutch Theatergroup Hollandia of Johan Simons (Münchner Kammerspiele) and Belgium Theatermaker Jan Fabre in Antwerp. She is the founder of Theatergroup Montana with whom she created the productions Man and Horse and The Fireangel. These productions went to stages in Holland, Belgium and Germany. Her latest theaterwork as an actress was production of Lars von Trier's Dogville in the theater. She played the role of Liz, nominated for The Public Theater award of 2007. Director of physical theater and dance theater, she teaches at the Academy of Art and Dance Arnhem. www.lindaolthof.com <http://www.lindaolthof.com>

Performances of Dream Palace are August 4 through 12, Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $12 ($10 for students and seniors) at www.theatermania.com <http://www.theatermania.com> or (212) 352-3101.

For more information, visit www.theaterlabnyc.com <http://www.theaterlabnyc.com> .