Three on a Couch

Synopsis

Set in New York an egomaniac writer, a neurotic shrink... and a rather cross wife.....An international best-selling novelist has everything: talent, fame, wealth, acclaim, a beautiful and intelligent wife. But for him it's not enough. He has an obsessive quest... and tells his secret Shrink about his plan... but does not tell his wife. Will the Shrink tell her what he knows? Will he get away with it? And what happens after the wife and the therapist share a mango together...?

Our Review:

30 March 2004

There’s a moment in Three on a Couch when one of the characters pays tribute to the man who invented the contraceptive pill back in the 1960s. A nod to the author Carl Djerassi who’s best known for just that invention, the line – for those in the know, in any case – raises one of the few titters in a distinctly unfunny evening of so-called comedy.

Set in a psychiatrist’s office in New York, Djerassi’s new three-hander revolves around an egomaniac novelist intent on faking his own death in order to ensure his literary afterlife. After his apparent suicide, the increasingly intimate relationship between his shrink and ‘widow’ – damn professional ethics – is jeopardised by the author’s unexpected (??) return and convoluted quest for immortality.

Scientist or no scientist, Djerassi is obviously a learned man and there are some intriguing conceits here, most notably the search for convincing heteronyms (literary alter-egos) inspired by Portuguese poet Fe...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (194.222.65.73) - 13 April 2004:

I loved it. Witty, light, scientific (if psychoanalysis be a science) and neat twists of plot, Djerassi has done it again, and the joke on himself as father of the pill is a good one. Brenda Maddox...

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