FREUD THE MUSICAL Returns to Vault Festival

Working Birthday today announce that Freud The Musical returns to VAULT Festival from the 14 March. In this one-woman show Natasha Sutton Williams collaborates once again with director, Dominic McHale to take on the roles of Sigmund Freud and his patients, including, the raging lesbian Dora, the anal Rat Man and Little Hans - the original Freudian mother****er. The production features thirteen original songs, with music provided by a live pianist and a soundscape of looped voices created each night.

Based on the true-life account of Sigmund Freud's cocaine abuse this comedy gleefully annihilates the father of modern psychology in a flurry of cross-dressing and dick jokes.

Unrecognised and approaching middle age, Sigmund is drowning in debt, crippled by cocaine and surrounded by madness. Worse yet, his best ideas come from Oedipussy: an imaginary cat-woman who encourages Sigmund to simply listen to his clients between insulting them and taking their money. Watch as this neurotic mess transform into Freud: the intellectual colossus and father of modern psychology.

The production first premièred at The Space Theatre in 2015, exactly 100 years after Freud put forward his theory of the Unconscious in an essay authored in 1915.

Natasha Sutton Williams is a playwright, singer and actor who has worked with director Dominic McHale on much of her work. Their work together includes Clown Sex (Arcola Theatre, Chelsea Theatre, Bunker Theatre, Angel Comedy Club), Dead Lucy (Southwark Playhouse, Brasserie Zedel, Waterloo East Theatre, Angel Comedy Club) and Prone to Mischief (Old Red Lion Theatre).

Working Birthday was established in 2017 to create entertaining shows about unpalatable subjects. They're the filthy joke that makes your mum laugh despite herself. Currently they have a new musical in development at Andrew Lloyd Webber's new theatre The Other Palace.

Tickets: £11.50

www.freudthemusical.com/ / www.vaultfestival.com

Twitter: @workingbirthday @NatashaPlays #FreudMusical

Photo Credit: Alicia Clarke

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