Theatre Royal, BathTerry Johnson's dazzlingly original play reminds us that farce can be a vehicle for ideas. Even if the piece has lost some of its shock value since it was first seen at the Royal Court in 1993, it still makes us laugh while raising serious questions about Freud's radical revision of his theories about the sources of hysteria.The action is set in Freud's Hampstead study in 1938. Seizing on the fact …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PM on August 7, 2012