Goethe-Institut Boston to Present A CASE NAMED FREUD, Commemorating 70th Anniversary of the Holocaust, 1/25-2/1

The Goethe-Institut Boston, in assocaition with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and Israeli Stage, and with the support of the Laura & Lorenz Reibling Family Foundation, presents the American Premiere of A Case Named Freud by award-winning playwright Savyon Liebrecht.

A Case Named Freud tells the story of Sigmund and Freud and the young Nazi, Dr. Sauer, who saved him and the Freud family after being appointed to take care of his estate in Vienna. The play captures both the intimate and moral struggles in quick dialogues portraying the interactions between the Freuds and Dr. Sauer, who in the end, provided the Freuds with exit visas to London.

This presentation follows the Savyon Liebrecht: In Residence at Israeli Stage program which included the World Premieres of Dear Sigmund and Carl and Freud's Women.

DETAILS:

A Case Named Freud

PRESENTED BY GOETHE-INSTITUT BOSTON

Sunday, January 25th, 2015 at 7PM | Goethe-Institut Boston

Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 at 7PM | Brandeis University

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 at 6:30PM| Boston College

Thursday, January 29th, 2015 at 7PM | Boston University

Sunday, February 1st, 2015 at 7PM | Suffolk University

Tickets and more information: bit.ly/freudcase

GERMAN STAGE is an initiative of the Goethe-Institut Boston, co-curated by Detlef Gericke, Annette Klein and Guy Ben-Aharon, to explore narratives in German culture and society through theatre: www.goethe.de/boston/germanstage.

AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM NEW YORK is the cultural embassy of Austria in the United States. It hosts around 200 free events annually and showcases cutting-edge Austrian contemporary art, music, literature, and academic thought: www.Acfny.org.

ISRAELI STAGE is dedicated to sharing the diversity and vitality of Israeli culture through theatre and has presented over fifteen plays in translation at over 25 different locations in the East Coast: www.IsraeliStage.com.

ABOUT THE CAST:

KEN BALTIN* | SIGMUND FREUD has been performing on Boston area stages for the past 30 years. Most recent credits of note include Death of a Salesman (Lyric Stage), Operation Epsilon (Nora), The Kite Runner (New Rep), Romeo and Juliet (ASP), The Sussman Variations and Deported: A Dream Play (Boston Playwrights). He previously appeared with Israeli Stage in the first of Savyon Liebrecht's Freud triology, Freud's Women. Ken is on the acting faculty at The Boston Conservatory.

MIRANDA CRAIGWELL | ANNA FREUD Smart People at The Huntington, Romeo and Juliet and Two Gentlemen of Verona at A.S.P., Race at New Rep, How We Got On and The Brother/Sister Plays at Company One, Doubt at Stoneham, Merchant of Venus at Zero Point Theater. Miranda was formerly a member of the Urban Improv acting troupe and was recently a Playwright Fellow at the Huntington.

STACY FISCHER* | HELEN WALD Insignificance (CST), The Seagull (Harbor Stage/ Modern Theatre), Brustein's The Last Will (CommShakes), and Our Town (Huntington). She is the recipient of an Elliot Norton Award for best actress for her role as Jessica in Hysteria (The Nora). Stacy is a graduate of Emerson College, and is a founding member of Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, MA.

ED HOOPMAN* | DR. SAUER Regional: A Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare); numerous performances: Lyric Stage, New Rep, Company One, Shear Madness. Mr. Hoopman is also an accomplished voiceover actor whose work can be heard both locally & nationally. www.EdHoopman.com

GABRIEL KUTTNER* | MARTIN FREUD Gabriel is Boston-based theatre artist, educator and currently runs the Davis Square Theatre in Somerville. As an actor, he has worked with many Boston-area companies including: ASP, Lyric Stage, New Rep, Stoneham, Boston Playwrights, Publick, WHAT and others.

DALE PLACE* | KURT Dale Place has appeared in New York in the New York Shakespeare Festival's King Lear and Lincoln Center Theatre's Nikolai and the Others. Boston appearances include Huntington Theatre, Lyric Stage, SpeakEasy, New Rep, and Stoneham Thrs. Film: The Fighter, The Proposal, Gone Baby Gone.

OMAR ROBINSON* | HARRY FREUD received a BA in Acting and TV / Video Production from Emerson College. Death of a Salesman, Superior Donuts (Lyric) Henry VIII, Romeo & Juliet, Pericles, Twelfth Night (A.S.P.), Hamlet (Bay Colony Shakespeare), Fire on Earth (Fresh Ink), Zombie Double Feature (New Exhibition Room), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Macbeth (Shakespeare NOW!).

GUY BEN-AHARON | CO-PRODUCER/DIRECTOR Born in Israel, Guy is the Producing Artistic Director & Founder of Israeli Stage. After the success of Israeli Stage, Guy was asked by the Goethe-Institut Boston to develop German Stage, by swissnexBoston to develop Swiss Stage and by the Austrian Cultural Forum NY to develop Austrian Stage. A proud Emerson College alum, Guy was profiled in The Boston Globe, Ha'aretz and The Washington Post for his work to promote international theatre.

DETLEF GERICKE | PRODUCER served as the Director of the Goethe-Institut Boston for six years and A Case Named Freud will be his last program before heading to Vilnius, Lithuania. In prior posts, he served as the Director of the Goethe-Institut Gothenburg, Sweden and of the Program Department of the Goethe-Institut Jakarta, Indonesia; Detlef also as the Director of Film Programs at the Goethe-Institut's Headquarters in Munich where he coordinated the international film division.

SAVYON LIEBRECHT | PLAYWRIGHT Born in Germany, in 1948, to Holocaust survivor parents, Savyon studied philosophy and literature at Tel Aviv University and started publishing in 1986. She has received the Alterman Prize (1987), the Amelia Rosselli Prize for Mail Order Women (Italy, 2002) and the Maior-Amalfi Award for A Good Place for the Night (Italy, 2005), as well as Playwright of the Year for her plays It's All Greek to Me, Apples in the Desert, Rohale's Getting Married and The Banality of Love.