Duet for One
Vaudeville
Ordinary Dreams
Trafalgar Studio
Therapy is celebrity by another name. An artificially created audience bears witness to your anguish and joy and enables you to resolve the terrible contradiction that underpins every human being’s world-view. Each of us, in his gut, feels like the star of his life. But in his head he knows he’s just one of billions of forgettable cameos. Celebrity and therapy resolve this conundrum. Therapy lets you believe your little world, and its problems are as significant as the rest of humanity. Celebrity forces the same belief. But while commentators everywhere decry celebrity and its narcissistic ramifications, no one is particularly bothered about the baleful influence of its elder sibling (I nearly said big brother), therapy. Duet for One by Tom Kempinski is a static, heavily textured drama about psychoanalysis which since its première in 1980 has been revived dozens of times around the world.
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