A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Theater
Chair: Robert Fenton, MSW, and Rosa Aurora Chavez Eakle, MD, PhD
Post-performance discussions of plays are held at metropolitan area theaters. A psychotherapist will discuss each play after the performances listed in our schedule. The goal of the discussion will be to provide a psychological perspective that will enrich and deepen the theater experience. Discussions are sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.
Tickets for the plays must be purchased directly from the theaters.
The discussions will take place after performances, except where noted otherwise.
For Tickets
30% off tickets to all performances of When She Had Wings by using WVFEST
About:
A nine-year-old girl named B fantasizes about flying in a makeshift cockpit she has built in a tree. The morning after a storm, B awakes to find A, a peculiar, elderly woman who “squawks” rather than talks, sharing her airplane. B believes that A is actually her heroine Amelia Earhart, who was never seen again after taking off across the Pacific Ocean. In exchange for B helping A finish her famous last flight, A promises B that she can and will fly! This story about using your imagination and making the impossible possible combines live sound and puppetry to create striking images and theatrical magic.
Discussants:
Join psychoanalysts Carla Elliott-Neely, PhD and Rosa Aurora Chavez, MD, PhD, lead actress Pamela Christian, and Kathryn Chase Bryer Director of When She Had Wings for the post-show panel: The Creation of Power and Meaning through Imagination: A Young Girl’s Journey moderated by Janet Stanford, Artistic Director.
WRITTEN BY LUCY KIRKWOOD
DIRECTED BY DAVID MUSE
For Tickets
Discounted tickets may only be purchased online through this link. All tickets will be held at Will Call for pick up on the day of the performance. Discounted tickets for performances are subject to availability, and the current ticket order deadline is two weeks prior to each performance
About:
In 1989, Joe, a young American journalist, photographs a protester facing down four tanks in Tiananmen Square. In 2012, with election season bringing US-China relations into the spotlight, Joe decides to seek out the subject of his most famous image—just as an old friend from China reaches out with an agenda of his own. A sensation in its London run, Chimerica covers two decades in the history of two superpowers as it considers political change, personal responsibility, and the stories that exist beyond the margins of a frame.
Discussant:
David E. Scharff MD: Founding Director and Chair of the Board of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) www.theipi.org; teaching analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis where he participates in the Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Theater Program; supervising analyst at the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training at IPI; clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University and at the University of the Health Sciences; past director of the Washington School of Psychiatry; author and editor of many books on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis in China and the newly launched journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, and co-author of the free e-book Doctor in the House Seat: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Theatre at www.freepsychotherapybooks.org. He is in private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with individuals, couples and families in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
WRITTEN BY CLARE LIZZIMORE
DIRECTED BY GAYE TAYLOR UPCHURCH
For Tickets
Discounted tickets may only be purchased online through this link. All tickets will be held at Will Call for pick up on the day of the performance. Discounted tickets for performances are subject to availability, and the current ticket order deadline is two weeks prior to each performance.
About:
Rachel has it all: marriage, house, career. So why does she suddenly have this creeping feeling? Did she leave something behind? Or is there something in the walls…? Her husband thinks she needs time; her psychiatrist suggests positive thinking. But then the visions start. Apparitions of doubts, past decisions, future mistakes. Is it time for Xanax? Prozac? Or perhaps she just needs to forget it all, follow her instinct, and kiss a stranger. A darkly comic play about the underside of domesticity, the complexity of the brain in chaos, and the thin line between sinking and survival.
Discussant:
Jill Savege Scharff MD: Co-founder of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) www.theipi.org; teaching analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis where she participates in the Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Theater Program; supervising analyst at the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training at IPI; clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University; author and editor of many books on psychoanalysis, teleanalysis, and couple and family therapy, including the free e-book Doctor in the House Seat: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Theatre at www.freepsychotherapybooks.org.
Falling Out of Time
March 27, 2015
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY David Grossman
TRANSLATION BY JESSICA COHEN
ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY DEREK GOLDMAN
About:
The Walking Man leaves on an expedition to find his lost son in that shadowy and mysterious place where the living and the dead may meet again. As he paces in ever-widening circles, townsfolk fall into step with him and share their grief over their own departed loved ones. A new adaptation of acclaimed Israeli author David Grossman’s novel about enduring loss. This incandescent fable of parental grief powerfully distills the experience of accepting death in a way that is moving, beautiful and timely in Israeli society, and across cultures.
Discussant:
Kerry Malawista, MSW, Ph.D. is a training and supervising analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society and co-chair of New Directions in Writing at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in Potomac, MD and McLean, VA and has taught at George Washington University Psychology doctoral Program, Virginia Commonwealth University and Smith College School of Social Work. She is the co-author of Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories (2011) and co-editor, The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby (2013), both with Columbia University Press. Her essays have appeared widely including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Zone 3, Washingtonian Magazine, and Voices, alongside many professional chapters and articles.
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