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Fizzing with intelligence, and featuring a catastrophic misunderstanding and a deeply symbolic cigar, this richly imagined play feels all too plausible

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Think of Sigmund Freud, the “father of psychoanalysis”, and a few images probably come to mind. A smouldering cigar. His small wire-frame glasses. And of course, his psychoanalytic couch – the divan his patients would lie on during sessions. While the couch has become an enduring symbol of Freud’s practice,…