HYSTERIA
By: Terry Johnson (UK).
Director: Aurora Cano (Mexico).
To the memory of Luis de Icaza. “Fragments of a surreal neurosis”.
Cast (in order of appearance):
Sigmund Freud – Héctor Bonilla.
Anna Freud – Jéssica Gocha.
Jessica – María Renée Prudencio.
Abraham Yahuda – Emilio Guerrero.
Salvador Dalí – Darío T. Pie.
Director and translator: Aurora Cano.
Executive producer: Sebastián Sánchez Amunátegui.
Set and lighting designer: Juliana Faesler.
Costume designer: Bertha Romero.
Original score and sound designer: Iñaki.
Assistant director: Ixchel Sánchez.
Assistant producer: Martha Ladrón de Guevara.
Assistant set designer: Ingrid SAC.
Graphic Designer: Leonor Hernández.
Video designer: Sebastián Sánchez Amunátegui.
Illustration: Ernesto Anaya.
Photography: José Jorge Carreón.
Carpenter: Macedonio Cervantes.
Costume maker: Vesarte.
Prop master: Javier Tovar
SYNOPSIS
On a rainy London night in 1939, after receiving a heavy dose of morphine to ease the pain caused by jaw cancer, Sigmund Freud tries to find some peace. A mysterious woman comes to the garden of her house in Hampstead, and through the windows that overlook the study, she threatens to commit suicide if he does not let her in. Freud opens it and Jessica enters drenched. Throughout the play, the true reason why the intruder visits Freud will be discovered and why the next morning she is still in his “closet” when two visitors arrive: Abraham Yahuda, his doctor, and Salvador Dalí. Little by little we will discover that the characters are actually wandering inside Freud’s head as he gives in to the mind-blowing effects of the latest dose of morphine.
