Ajay Banga, the newly minted President and CEO of MasterCard, offered a hearty endorsement for FREUD'S LAST SESSION in this week's Sunday New York Times. In a feature piece profiling Mr. Banga, a native of India, the Times reported, "At a dinner in Delhi with colleagues from New York and Singapore, he spoke animatedly in English about how much he liked 'Freud's Last Session,' an Off-Broadway production about a hypothetical meeting between Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis."
FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the new hit play by Mark St. Germain, celebrates its 100th performance tonight at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, 10 West 64th Street (at Central Park West). FREUD'S LAST SESSION opened on July 22nd to rave reviews and immediately became a sellout sensation. This strictly limited engagement is set to run through November 28th. The Off-Broadway premiere of FREUD'S LAST SESSION stars Mark H. Dold as C. S. Lewis and Martin Rayner as Sigmund Freud, under the direction of Tyler Marchant. FREUD'S LAST SESSION had its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company (MA) in June 2009, where it was extended twice and brought back by popular demand for two subsequent encore engagements. It holds the record as the longest-running show in Barrington Stage's history.FREUD'S LAST SESSION centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, who invites the young, rising academic star 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, the joy of love, the purpose of sex, and the meaning of life - just a few weeks before Freud's own death. Not just a powerful debate, this is a profound and deeply touching play about two men who boldly addressed the greatest questions of all time.Videos