Overview
1938. Hampstead, London. Sigmund Freud has fled
Nazi-occupied Austria
and settled in leafy Swiss Cottage. At eighty-two-years-old, he aims to
spend his final days in peace. However, when Salvador Dalí turns up to
discover a less-than-fully dressed woman in the closet, peace becomes
somewhat elusive . . . An acknowledged modern classic, Terry
Johnson's hilarious farce explores the fall-out when two of the
twentieth century's most brilliant and original minds collide. It
touches on many themes including Nazi Germany, the Surrealist movement,
Judaism, Freud's theories of the unconscious mind, family relationships,
life and death, and love and loss. Johnson's celebrated play raises
intriguing questions about Freud's radical revision of his theories of
hysteria.