David Mamet once said, “We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.” This summer, Monterey County theater seeks to rein in your subconscious and parade it about the boards, with a wildly diverse and intriguing season of great drama, comedy and musicals.

Before Shrek, there was only Pixar and the pretenders in the field of computer-generated animation. And since Pixar seemed to have commandeered every talent in the field who believed that heart and story mattered, the competitors had no road map.

Dramatic hysteria knows no bounds in dot the i, a film that has the up-and-down rhythm of a roller coaster—with none of the thrills. Characters chase each other at a furious clip through the streets of London, cry buckets of tears, lob countless open-palmed slaps across faces, engage in tort…

When 18-year-old Sam Given told Rosemary Luke that he wanted to choreograph her big summer blockbuster Zorba the Greek, Luke told him she’d need to think about it over the weekend. After all, even though the Robert Louis Stevenson High senior had acted and danced his whole life, he had no ex…