The BAFTA award-winning writers of hit sitcoms Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, are premiering their new comedy in London this September 2025.
Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler is a new dark comedy which imagines Adolf Hitler visited by Sigmund Freud for psychiatric treatment.
Produced by Chromolume (Road Show, In Clay), the comedy will run at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in London from 4 to 28 September 2025.
Set in late-19th century Vienna, the production takes inspiration from a recommendation given by Hitler’s childhood doctor that he should visit a children’s psychiatric clinic opened by the world-renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. In reality, Adolf’s father refused to take him for treatment. This poignant new work explores whether the 20th century’s greatest psychoanalyst could have saved humanity from the era’s greatest psychopath.
Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler is directed by the Gatehouse’s Artistic Director Isaac Bernier-Doyle (Road Show, Blood Gold and Oil).
Writer Laurence Marks said in a statement: “Our play was a result of many years of studious reading, when it suddenly occurred to us that it was possible that two of the greatest German-speaking figures of the 20th century could have met one another. Our curiosity was such as to imagine what might have happened had they done so…and when we came to that conclusion, we thought a stage play was brewing. This is a work of the imagination, of course, but the line in the play, said by Sigmund Freud, “It’s fascinating how, as modern life becomes more complex, the masses look to their leaders for ever more simple solutions”, really resonated with what is happening over in the United States and Russia, under the Presidency of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. This is very much a play for today. We must never forget at this very moment in history the impact Freud and Hitler had on our lives, even if they are on the horizon of our memories. Would today’s world have been a vastly different place had the two men really met?”
Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler is playing at Upstairs at the Gatehouse from 4 to 28 September 2025.
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