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Psychoneurotic Phantasies

Short Play, Comedy  /  1w, 2m

Gilbert David Feke

Young playwright Gilbert Feke has created an off-kilter and strikingly original comedy. Sigmund Freud jumps out of a textbook and plays matchmaker for high school students Joshua and Elaine - two teens who discover that they can be well-adjusted, even with their phantastic views of reality.

Psychoneurotic Phantasies

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce, Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences, Teen (Age 14 - 18)
Accolades
Accolades
  • Official Selection! 1990 National Young Playwrights Festival

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Summary
Young playwright Gilbert David Feke has created an off-kilter and strikingly original comedy. Sigmund Freud jumps out of a textbook and plays matchmaker for high school students Joshua and Elaine - two teens who discover that they can be well-adjusted, even with their phantastic views of reality. Includes a bizarre, uproarious spoof of a children's puppet show, and the Family Freud, a game show with the Jung and Adler families as contestants. (Freud hosts, naturally.) An intelligent, intense, bold, and ultimately touching teen comedy, with a unique insider's perspective into the teen experience.

History
Psychoneurotic Phantasies was first produced by Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall Summer Theater School in Waltham, Massachusettes on July 9, 1990. It was directed by Amy Potozkin. The play was subsequently presented by the Foundation of the Dramatists Guild at Playwrights Horizons in New York City on September 18, 1990, as part of the 1990 Young Playwrights Festival. It was directed by Gloria Muzio.
JOSHUA - teenage boy
ELAINE - teenage girl
SIGMUND FREUD - matchmaker
THE PSYCHOCOMPANY - ensemble

Can be expanded to a company of 10+

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No intermission, Puppetry
  • Duration 30 minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

"Gilbert David Feke's Psychoneurotic Phantasies is a breezy and at times sophomoric spoof of post-Freudian psychology, in which Freud himself... plays a pivotal role. Two youngsters ... have wild fantasies, which are acted out by a vociferous team of cartoonlike players" - Mel Gussow, The New York Times

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
  • Chorus Size No Chorus

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  • Minimum Fee: $65 per performance

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Gilbert David Feke

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