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Theatre

Hysteria is a pile-up of unmotivated absurdities

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

Hysteria

Hampstead, until 12 October

Cheese

Floor One, 29–31 Oxford Street, W1, until 28 September

Terry Johnson’s acclaimed farce Hysteria opens in Sigmund Freud’s Hampstead home in 1938. The godfather of psychobabble is ambushed by a beautiful maniac named Jessica, who forces him to analyse her, and then hides in his closet and strips naked. Along comes Freud’s old chum Yahuda, a bumbling twerp who doubles as the farce’s authority figure.

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