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Freud's Last Session, the award-winning, Off-Broadway hit play by Mark St. Germain (suggested by The Question of God by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.), will debut at the Century Theatre Wednesday, Sept. 7 - Nov. 20 with 10 weeks of thought-provoking performances. Freud's Last Session will kick off the Gem & Century Theatres 20th Anniversary Season.
Freud's Last Session is a clever two-man play that centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, who invites a young, little-known professor, C.S. Lewis, to his home in London. Lewis, expecting to be called on the carpet for satirizing Freud in a recent book, soon realizes Freud has a much more significant agenda. On the day England enters World War II, Freud and Lewis clash on the existence of God, love, sex and the meaning of life - only two weeks before Freud chooses to take his own.
Humorous and well written, Freud's Last Session, a beautifully presented and provocative play, will have audiences thinking as the two characters assert theories, tell jokes and plunge into tantalizing debates of opposing disciplines. Freud's Last Session, winner of the 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play, stars Mitch Greenberg as Dr. Freud and Cory Krebsbach as C.S. Lewis, under the direction of Tyler Marchant. Playwright Mark St. Germain has written the plays Camping with Henry and Tom (Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards), Out of Gas on Lover's Leap and Forgiving Typhoid Mary (Time Magazine's "Year's Ten Best"). With Randy Courts, he has written the musicals The Gifts of the Magi, Johnny Pye and the Foolkiller (winner of an AT&T "New Plays for the Nineties Award") and Jack's Holiday at Playwrights Horizons. TV credits include Writer and Creative Consultant for The Cosby Show. Mark co-wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed film Duma, and he directed and co-produced the documentary My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story featuring Richard Gere, Glenn Close and Edward Albee, among many others.
Director Tyler Marchant most recently directed Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives at Barrington Stage Company. For six years, he served as Associate Artistic Director at Primary Stages. Tyler was nominated for a 2010 Joe A. Callaway Award for his direction of Freud's Last Session. Freud's Last Session will thrill audiences at Detroit's Century Theatre Sept. 7-Nov. 20. Performances run Wednesday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with matinee shows at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $39.50-$44.50. Tickets ($34.50-$44.50) are available at Ticketmaster.com and at the Gem & Century Theatre box office. Save $10 on preview tickets - opening week only - which are only available at the Gem Theatre box office by calling 313-963-9800. Preview ticket pricing may not be combined with any other offer. Groups (15+) save $5 per ticket. Group discounts may not be combined with any other offer. Contact Sara Schrems, group sales manager, at 313-463-4216 to reserve tickets for groups of 15 or more and to make dining reservations while key dates are still available for this spectacular season! Dining packages start at $11.
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