Robert Smyth and Fran Gercke to Star in FREUD'S LAST SESSION at Lamb's Next Month

Lamb's Players Theatre today announced the cast for their upcoming production of Freud's Last Session, opening on April 11th on their resident stage in Coronado.

At the outbreak of WWII Sigmund Freud has a meeting with a young Oxford professor, C.S. Lewis. Playwright Mark St. Germain presents an exhilarating conversation both profound and humorous, about love, sex, death and God from two fascinatingly different points of view.

Starring as Sigmund Freud will be Robert Smyth, with Francis Gercke in the role of C.S. Lewis.

LAMB'S Associate Artistic Director and the director of Freud's Last Session, Deborah Gilmour Smyth, shared "we are pleased to have an ongoing history of examining works by and about Lewis...including this year's January production of Tom Key in C.S. Lewis on Stage. We first visited Freud's Last Session by way of a very well received staged reading a few years back -- so we are excited to mount a full-scale production of this fascinating conversation. And we have long admired Fran Gercke's work in the theatre community, and are eager to welcome him to the Lamb's stage for the first time."

Freud's Last Session runs from April 11th - May 17th, Select Wed @ 2pm, Tues-Thurs at 7:30, Fri @ 8pm, Sat @ 4pm & 8pm and Sun @2pm at Lamb's Players Theatre, Coronado, located at 1142 Orange Avenue, Coronado CA 92118. Tickets are $22-$72. Tickets can be purchased at the box office (Tues-Sat noon-7) by phone at 619-437-6000 or online at lambsplayers.org.

ABOUT THE CAST:

Francis Gercke (C.S. Lewis) - Francis has appeared in theatre productions throughout San Diego including: Lovesong, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Desire Under the Elms, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie (Cygnet Theatre); Suzette Who Set To Sea (La Jolla Playhouse POP Tour), Accomplice (La Jolla Playhouse WOW); Proof, The Merchant of Venice, In the Next Room, In the Wake, Honky (San Diego Rep); A Life in the Theatre, Time Stands Still (NCRT); Hurlyburly, Grace, Shining City (ion theatre); The Pride (Diversionary Theatre); Three Sisters, Crimes of the Heart, Still Life, The Waverly Gallery, True West, Orphans, Playboy of the Western World, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It (New Village Arts); I Hate Hamlet, Oleanna, Macbeth (Intrepid Shakespeare Company). He is co-founder and former artistic director of New Village Arts and a resident artist with Cygnet Theatre. He is a recipient of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award for his work as an actor and as a director. He has been a faculty member at Palomar College, University of San Diego, and California State University San Marcos and is the founder of ActorsApproach, a weekly acting class for professional and amateur actors. He is a graduate of the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Robert Smyth (Sigmund Freud) is LAMB's Producing Artistic Director. He joined the staff of Lamb's Players Street Theatre as an actor and director in 1976. In 1978 LAMB'S opened its first resident theatre in National City, and then in 1994 brought the old performance space in Coronado's historic Spreckel's Building back to life as its new home. Robert has directed more than 150 productions for LAMB'S, and performed in over 100, including favorite roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1776, Cyrano De Bergerac, The Boys Next Door, and the one-man show Damien. He and his wife, director, actor, composer, Deborah Gilmour Smyth, make their home in Coronado.

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