[Peace-discuss] Brilliant local play, set at the outbreak of WWII

[C. G. Estabrook]

Urbana's Station Theatre opens tomorrow (July 25) for a two-week run Mark St. Germain's play "Freud's Last Session," directed by Tom Mitchell.   

Two brilliant local actors confront one another as Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis, meeting in London as the Second World War breaks out. 

This production - I was privileged to see it in a rehearsal tonight - is I think superior to the long-running New York version. 

"FREUD'S LAST SESSION centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, who invites a young, little-known professor, C.S. Lewis, to his home in London. Lewis, expecting to be called on the carpet for satirizing Freud in a recent book, soon realizes Freud has a much more significant agenda. On the day England enters World War II, Freud and Lewis clash on the existence of God, love, sex and the meaning of life – only two weeks before Freud chooses to take his own.

"FREUD'S LAST SESSION by Mark St. Germain. Suggested by 'The Question of God' by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr."

--CGE