Freud's final session

Freud's Last Session, written by American author Mark St. Germain, premiered in New York in 2010 and went on to enjoy worldwide success. It now comes to the Museum, directed by British director Tamzin Townsend and performed by two great actors, Helio Pedregal as Sigmund Freud and Eleazar Ortiz as C.S. Lewis.

Tickets: €16 and €14

THE SHOW

The play Freud's Last Session takes place in London on the day England declares war on Hitler. On this crucial day for the West, Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, aged 83, receives Clive Staples Lewis, aged 40, a promising professor at Oxford University.

The meeting takes place on September 3, 1939, at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, in the office that Anna, Freud's daughter, has decorated to resemble the one in Vienna, the city that the family left in 1938 due to the Nazi threat.

C.S. Lewis, who would be recognized as a brilliant author of fantasy literature for works such as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters, had satirized Freud in one of his books, prompting the neurologist to want to meet him in person.

The two geniuses will disagree, in an ironic, sharp, and scathing manner, about love, sex, art, the existence of God, and the meaning of life, twenty days before Sigmund Freud takes his own life.

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