Meanwhile, back in the consulting room… For the second time this year, the Almeida Theater is reviving a play focused around psychoanalysis. Nicholas Wright’s 1988 three-hander drama, “Mrs. Klein,” is ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “We murder to dissect,” wrote Wordsworth, referring to excessive study killing our appreciation of the wonders of ...
As the title character in Nicholas Wright’s “Mrs. Klein,” the famed Uta Hagen is, in a sense, portraying two women. As Melanie Klein, the pioneering Viennese-born child psychoanalyst, Hagen speaks in ...
In the second half, the play fitfully flares into dramatic life: Zoe Waites as Melitta and Clare Higgins as Mrs Klein Credit: Photo: ALASTAIR MUIR These days, a visit to the Almeida sometimes feels ...
Mothers and daughters on the stage were given a whole new twist by Nicholas Wright in his wonderfully skilful play Mrs Klein, first seen at the National Theatre in 1988 but now performed all over the ...
Wright's play was a significant hit its first time round in London, opening in 1988 at the National before transferring to Shaftesbury Avenue; a separate Off-Broadway production in 1995 garnered kudos ...