Saturday, May 14, 2011

Freud's Last Session - Great Play


This week, Bill and I saw "Freud's Last Session" by Mark St. Germain. What an amazing play!

This production was so real, I felt that I was in Freud's London study watching Freud and C.S. Lewis in conversation. The credit for this belongs to the flawless production. Every element was perfect: the amazing acting - real and engaging, the script - a terrific blend of thoughts and emotions, the direction - which kept the show entertaining as well as thought provoking, the set - perfect in it's complete detail.

And no small feat, the attention paid to the little production details, a radio being turned on and off and the same with lamps. Now, you may say, why would I notice those things? Well, I do. And I really don't like it when an actor turns of a light or a radio and a beat passes and then the thing really goes off. That was not the case in this production. When the actor turned something off or on, it was off or on. It was real time.
That's how detailed toward a beautiful reality this production was.

If you live in NYC or close, buy your ticket. You won't be disappointed. This show is well-worth seeing.

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