Heartwood Continues Thursday Night Series with Freud’s Last Session

If NYC is not on your January radar, but you’re hankering for some rich theater, Heartwood’s reading of “Freud’s Last Session” by Mark St. Germain provides just the ticket. This smartly written two man script imagines a meeting between the legendary 83 year old psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, a staunch atheist just days from taking his own life (read by John D. Adams) and the young, little-known professor, C.S. Lewis (read by Steven Shema), in Freud’s London study. On the day England enters World War II, Freud and Lewis engage in an intellectual battle of the wits – each ardent in their beliefs and not without a great deal of humor – around the looming questions on the existence of God, love, war, sex and the meaning of life.

For audience members who enjoy intense debate and witty humor, these 75 minutes of lively discourse will be pure pleasure. Winning the Best Play Award from the Off Broadway Alliance, “Freud’s Last Session” has the record for being the longest running Off-Broadway show in history, is still running in the New World Stages Theater in NY, and opened internationally, last month.

Skidompha Library atrium provides the perfect literary setting for this reading, part of Heartwood and Skidompha’s collaborative monthly series, “Thursday Nights,” sponsored by Maine Coast Book Store and Café. Join us on Thursday, January 12th, at 7pm for a thoroughly engaging evening with John Adams and Steve Shema, directed by Griff Braley. Suggested donations are $5/students and $8/adults. Suitable for audience 13 and up. Produced with special permission by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.