Hysteria
From: Thursday, 26th July 2012
To: Saturday, 18 August 2012
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Synopsis
London, 1939. Sigmund Freud, one of the greatest names of the 20th century and the father of psychoanalysis, spends his dying days in Hampstead - in exile from Hitler's Europe. An unexpected visitor in the night throws the certainties of a life's work into doubt and blurs the borders between dreams and reality. When things cannot get any stranger, they do. Why has his Doctor found women's undergarments on the lawn? Is there a naked woman in the house? Was Salvador Dali chasing a swan round the garden? Is he barking mad? Or has everything just degenerated into farce? Contains scenes of an adult nature.
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Gill Kirk - 3 August 2012
Terry Johnson, playwright, screenwriter, director, and Anthony Sher, here revive Johnson’s 1993 Royal Court award-winner, Hysteria before taking it to Richmond, Oxford and Cambridge.
It’s 1939. We sit with Sigmund Freud in his Hampstead study, his days reaching their end. In night’s darkest hours a woman arrives, claiming to be his Anima, and challenging the ethics and foundations of his seminal works. Next to the party is Salvador Dali and Freud’s own physician who dispenses morphia and opprobrium (about Freud’s Jewish loyalties) in equal measure.
That is, in more ways than one, the set-up. Billed as farce, this play is far, far more. Like any human being, the surface is very unlike what lies underneath: there are codes, signposts, symbols (French windows for farce, for example). We touch melodrama, surrealism, filmic slow-mo and absurdity. Truth, perception, ethics, relationships, willful blindess: they’re all here in this Blumenthal-esque fru...
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DeePee65 - 7 August 2012:
An excellent production; at times deep and meaningful, at others hysterical [no pun intended] farce. Stage settings wonderful; hallucination scene especially stunning....
Creative
Terry Johnson (Author)
Theatre Royal Bath (Producer)
Terry Johnson (Director)
Les Brotherston (Design)
Paul Pyant (Lighting)
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