FREUD THE MUSICAL
TO RETURN TO VAULT FESTIVAL 2018
Working Birthday Present
FREUD THE MUSICAL
A One Woman Show about Sex, Madness and Medicine
Written, composed and performed by Natasha Sutton Williams
Directed by Dominic McHale
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.
Freud the Musical
Listings
VAULT Festival, Waterloo, Launcelot St, Lambeth, London SE1 7AD
14-18 March 7.45pm
The matinee on Sunday 18 March at 4.45pm will be an Extra Live! / Relaxed performance.
Tickets: £11.50
www.freudthemusical.com/ / www.vaultfestival.com
Twitter: @workingbirthday @NatashaPlays #FreudMusical
Free post show talk at 6pm on 18 March at the VAULT Festival Punch Up Bar.