Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some additional general background information about you (and a description of events just before the dream), some ideas can be tried out to see if they might fit your personal situation in some way.
Just to start off by saying that dreams are the broad equivalent to those processes which keep our physical bodies in an equilibrium.
For example, automatic adjustments are continually made to keep one’s temperature, blood sugar level, water levels etc. etc. at appropriate levels.
Similarly, dreams try to maintain an overall psychological balance which will allow for the gradual all-round self-development of the dreamer.
Of course, the problem is that dreams require a certain level of knowledge and experience in order to interpret them accurately and access to reliable guidance in this area isn’t really usually available to most of us to build up such a foundation.
On the other hand, by keeping a close eye on our dreams, we can often get at least a broad feeling of how things are going on overall in our lives.
The language of dreams consists of metaphor and analogy which can be very complex, but some motifs in dreams are fairly consistent although the dreamer’s own spontaneous feelings, memories and thoughts about a given image can easily override any kind of fixed explanation, especially those found in “dream dictionaries” for example.
So some of the motifs in your dream include school, plays, scripts, actors, people in authority, audiences and performances.
A couple of these also appear in the four dreams you mentioned in another post.
Generally speaking, schools in dreams often are hinting that the dreamer needs to learn something about a current situation.
Also, a primary school might also symbolize the need to learn about some early experience(s) which might still be affecting the dreamer unconsciously too often.
In addition, certain remnants of attitudes and ways of acting etc. could possibly be too active in an age-inappropriate way.
Your dream begins in high school where the form tutor tells you that you’ve been given the lead role in a big production in your primary school.
One method of looking at dreams which might seem a little too obvious (but which can be very helpful) is to imagine what it would be like if a given dream event happened in outer life.
So for example, it wouldn’t really make any sense for you, a high schooler, to be given a leading role in a primary school production. Similarly, no script has even been written.
Since you have a strong desire to become a great actor, it’s possible that the dream, because of all of the references to acting etc. which it contains, is symbolically showing your current situation in relation with this goal.
If so, it looks like the dream could possibly be advising you to reconsider how you might have to approach this objective.
For example, the images of females in the dreams of a guy usually are related to his emotions and values. In addition, they touch on certain other areas he may not be very attuned to such as maybe handling practical realities very well or in listening to intuitions in a reliable way.
In your dream, the female form tutor is “pale”, “blonde” and “thin”, perhaps suggesting an as yet weak connection with handling emotions which could possibly become a handicap in how you look to others at times (e.g. your uncle in the dream is also pale and you’re afraid he could have a seizure).
The tutor also changes in appearance, maybe further hinting how your emotional and relationship side might tend to “come and go” in various circumstances.
Similarly, your Nan and another woman “disappear”, leaving you with your uncle who looks ill.
Later, an aggressive woman who breathes down your neck is linked to a performance that apparently never takes place even though the audience is applauding. This could possibly point to some kind of semi-obsessive feeling-desire to become an actor “no matter what” which might not work very well in practical terms (e.g. earlier, you didn’t like having to do the “grunt work” of stage production and audience entertainment).
Maybe the idea of wanting to become a great actor “no matter what” comes up in the image of the African man who stops you getting into the street which leads to your home.
For example, maybe you’re having a bit of a hard time right now and so are living in the residential supported housing where 24 hr care is provided.
If so, the dream apparently shows this as being a kind of “safe haven” at this time (e.g. two ladies quietly overrule the African man who then lets you in; the road becomes a pleasant country lane type of thing).
In this way of looking at your dream, the African man would represent a sort of wrong-headed feeling that somehow is urging a too-high-a-goal all-at-once approach instead of gradually working towards it step by step.
Similarly, it’s a fat African support worker (maybe his obesity symbolizing an “unhealthy” way of acting) who gives in and lets you go to the play.
And the final scene isn’t really a triumph because you have to wear an embarrassing monkey costume while being lowered down to the stage.
Also, while charming and fun, the Wizard of Oz isn’t really meant to reflect “reality as it is”, maybe suggesting that if you stay “too high up” in your current ambition while sort of symbolically “aping” a posh accent (like Leslie Phillips does), the “show” unfortunately might not end like you think it will (the audience applauds but you wake up before the show is actually over).
Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything much about you, this way of looking at your dream might not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope these ideas can be helpful in some way.
Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your dream.
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