Hysteria

Hysteria was performed as part of Rose Bruford College’s Interprogram Season in Studio One, Sidcup in June 2016. This process included a full student creative and production team.

Hysteria, fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis by Terry Johnson.

The year is 1938. Sigmund Freud is dying from cancer of the jaw. In these final hours of his life, he receives three visitors. Whilst trying to put his affairs in order, he is unexpectedly confronted with a previous diagnosis and finds himself having to explain his sudden change of mind on the topic of hysteria.