Connecting Conversations Talks To Playwright Nicholas Wright, Creator Of Almeida's Mrs Klein

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 6, 2009 -- Theatre and psychoanalysis come together at a Connecting Conversations event on 4 December at which playwright Nicholas Wright, whose play Mrs Klein is currently at the Almeida Theatre, will discuss the play with psychoanalyst Helen Taylor Robinson.

Set in the 1930s, Mrs Klein is a witty and poignant study of relationships focusing on the admired yet controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, who developed new approaches to child psychoanalysis and caused fierce debate within the psychoanalytic movement by challenging some of Freud's theories. Mrs Klein is playing at the Almeida Theatre until 5 December 2009. www.almeida.co.uk

Nicholas Wright ways: "'What am I doing?' 'Why am I doing it?' 'What am I trying to achieve?' 'What is stopping me?' These are questions every playwright asks when stepping into the characters' shoes, and that every actor tries to find the answer to in rehearsals. Theatre and psychoanalysis have a lot in common, and I look forward to a conversation that might throw some light on the kinship and distinctions between the two."

Helen Taylor Robinson says, "Mrs Klein is a brilliantly crafted drama, utilising biography but deploying the material so deftly that it successfully opens up phantasies for us all about one of the key figures of psychoanalysis, allowing us, analysts and laymen and women to revisit the core issues of psychoanalysis and human relations. It's also about dominance and subjugation, about loss and mourning and its difficulties, but above all it is about boundaries that collapse continually between professional and personal matters, and this writ large on this stage of psychoanalysis - a dramatic place in any case when unconscious forces are privileged over the conscious with dangerous consequences."

Connecting Conversations is a series of events bringing together psychoanalysis and other fields to make connections between individuals, organisations and ideas. It is produced by The Rowan Arts Project in partnership with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Freud Museum and Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. For more information visit http://www.connectingconversations.org

Members of the press are invited to attend, contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln on 07958 448002, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

For information about the Almeida Theatre and its productions, or any images, please contact press representatives Premier PR: Janine Shalom janine.shalom@premierpr.com 020 7292 8330

Tickets: £12/£8 concs. £10 for Friends of Freud Museum. Includes a glass of wine.

Free online booking at www.connectingconversations.org, or by phone 07787 814316 (£2.50 fee for phone bookings.


All media enquiries relating to Connecting Conversations - Ginette Goulston-Lincoln on 07958 448002, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

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