Review

Polly Samson's A Theatre for Dreamers takes up the real-life romance of an artists' colony on the island of Hydra

By Ian McFarlane
July 4 2020 - 12:00am
Greek islands like Hydra have nourished romantic mythology for millennia. Picture: Shutterstock
Greek islands like Hydra have nourished romantic mythology for millennia. Picture: Shutterstock
  • A Theatre for Dreamers, by Polly Samson. Bloomsbury. $29.99.

The Greek islands have nourished romantic mythology for millennia, so a novel about 20th century creative escapism on Hydra, in the Aegean Sea, might be considered unexceptionable. However, the daring conceit of using the lives and words of artists and writers who were there during the 1960s elevates Polly Samson's A Theatre for Dreamers to a different plane.

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