There is a theme emerging on this year’s fringe about male power and its abuses. You see it in Svengali, the tale of a controlling tennis coach, and in Guide to Surviving Masculinist Territory, which is exactly that. It is also central to this one-woman show about the professional indignities of the acting industry.
Psychodrama takes as its starting point Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and is a reflection, without ever stating as much, on that director’s complex relationship with the women he put on screen. So often, they are both star and victim, framed in the limelight but denied their agency.
