Hysteria or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis (Methuen Modern Plays) - Softcover

Johnson, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413703606 ISBN 13: 9780413703606

Publisher: A&C Black 3PL, 1995

Synopsis

"Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety" (Guardian) In Hysteria one of Freud's earliest "cases" returns to haunt the psychoanalyst but finds Salvador Dali hiding in the cupboard. It is "one of the most brilliantly original and entertaining new plays I have seen in years: wild, weird and funny, serious, compassionate and shocking, blasphemous and reverential, intellectual and frivolous, a factual fantasy, a demented farce, a black nightmare." (Sunday Times)

About this title

Review:

Terry Johnson is a writer of cracking acting parts, and one of the critically cherished few who can build characters and action from a thematic starting point. --Independent on Sunday

Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety. --Guardian

About the Author:

Terry Johnson's previous plays for the Royal Court are Hitchcock Blonde, Hysteria and Insignificance. Other work includes an adaptation of The Graduate (Gielguld Theatre), Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle And Dick (National Theatre/winner Olivier Award for Best Comedy 1998), an adaptation of The London Cuckolds (National Theatre), Dead Funny (Hampstead Theatre/Vaudville/Tour/winner Critic Circle Award for Best Play, Time Out Drama Award 1994), Imagine Drowning (Hampstead/winner of the John Whiting Award 1991), Cries From The Mammal House (Leicester Haymarket/Royal Court), Unsuitable For Adults (Bush).

About this edition

• Publisher: A&C Black 3PL
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0413703606
• ISBN 13: 9780413703606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108