Penn Museum & the Arden Theatre: Setting the Stage for Freud's Last Session |
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October 16, 2012,
Volume 59, No. 08 |
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One of the many artifact reproductions from the collection of the Penn Museum on loan to the Arden Theatre for Freud's Last Session |
The Penn Museum presents a special opportunity; the Museum is partnering with the Arden Theatre Company as they gear up for Freud’s Last Session, an imaginative play by Mark St. Germain, directed by Ian Merrill Peaks, running late October through December 23, 2012.
About Freud’s Last Session: On the day that England enters World War II, Sigmund Freud invites a young C. S. Lewis (future author of such classics as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, and The Great Divorce) to his London flat. Here, the father of modern psychology challenges a little known professor on the brink of literary fame.
The Penn Museum connection: Sigmund Freud was a prolific collector of antiquities—so much so that the Museum hosted a traveling exhibition, The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments from a Buried Past, in 1989. In order to create an authentic space for Freud’s office, the Arden Theatre Co. needed to find a collection of suitable antiquities. Penn Museum loaned 17 artifact reproductions from the collection—Asian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman pieces—to help set the stage, and the tone, for what happens when these two great men meet.
Tickets are now available for the last dress rehearsal of Freud’s Last Session, on Wednesday, October 24, 8 p.m. at the award-winning Arden Theatre Company, 40 North 2nd Street in Philadelphia. Tickets are $15, with all proceeds going to the Penn Museum.
Tickets are limited. Order advance tickets at www.penn.museum/events-calendar/details/914.html and print out the ticket voucher. Open seating tickets will be handed out beginning at 7 p.m. on the day of the show at the Arden Theatre.
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