Two recent productions forced audiences to examine how more primitive cultures saw their dreams collapse under the weight of steady growth and unexpected permutations of their ideals.
Wollstonecraft had envisioned living in a female utopia with Blood; they made plans to rent rooms together and support each other emotionally and financially, but this dream collapsed under economic realities.
The pair plan to travel around the heavily-industrialised areas left after the Communist period, documenting the lives of the people that ex-Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu turned from farmers into miners, then left bankrupt after his misguided, Socialist dream collapsed in on itself. .
Either that, or the Scottish independence dream collapses with the oil price.
Then the dream collapses into a very mundane situation: the narrator has to go to the bathroom.
Does it now take on a different meaning, at a time when so many Americans are, like Walter White, seeing their dreams collapse?
In 2008, aged 82, Mr Jose died and it is true to say that he lived to see his dreams collapse.
But the Scottish dream quickly collapsed as Henry's crude handling of that nation gave control to a pro-French party, determined to resist even an alliance with England; physical conquest was beyond the king's means.
But suddenly the Famous Five dream collapses.
The show often stays with the small-businessperson after the big reveal of Fielder's idea and its total failure, and we watch as the reality sinks in and the dream collapses.
The truth is that since 2009, the Greek economy collapsed dreams are not easy to protect.
