The Talking Cure at the Mark Taper Forum
Mark Taper Forum (135 North Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012)
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The last date listed for The Talking Cure was Thursday May 13, 2004 / 8:00pm.
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Quotes & Highlights
- "Intriguing...informative...fascinating." The Guardian, London
- "One of Hampton's best...intelligent and absorbing." The Times of London
Description
Her illness fascinated them. Her ideas seduced them. Her beauty intoxicated them.
Ambition, deceit, emotional breakdowns, explosive disagreements,
apocalyptic dreams and unflagging sexual passion set the scene for the
moment in history when Carl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina
Spielrein came together and split, and changed modern psychiatry forever.
In the early 1900s in Vienna, Sigmund Freud introduced a radical new therapy, psychoanalysis: "the talking cure." Carl Jung, practicing in Zurich, put the technique to test on a young Russian/Polish patient, Sabina Spielrein. The success of the experiment and the blossoming of their seminal relationship completely changed the face of analysis and perhaps the course of modern history.
In his new play, Christopher Hampton brilliantly reveals the early years of psychoanalysis as a new science, one that dared place sexuality at the center of human relationships. The Talking Cure tells the captivating story behind the irreconcilable break between the men whose partnership established the 20th century's revolutionary new method of understanding human consciousness, and the woman who was the catalyst.
The Talking Cure was first presented at the Cottesloe Theatre in London, in January 2003, in a production directed by Howard Davies, starring Ralph Fiennes as Jung, Jodhi May as Sabina Spielrein, and Dominic Rowan (replacing James Hazeltine) as Freud.
Christopher Hampton's many plays and adaptations include Tales from Hollywood, Savages and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman.
This production stars Abby Brammell, Sue Cremin, Taylor Daubens, John Hansen, Bruce Katzman, Henri Lubatti, PJ Marino, Shiva Rose McDermott, Emily Rose Morris, Sam Robards, Libby West and Harris Yulin.
Settings and Projected Images: Peter Wexler
Costume Design: Durinda Wood
Lighting Design: Paulie Jenkins
Sound Design: Philip G. Allen
Original Music: Karl Fredrik Lundeberg