Productions
No Exit
April 25th - May 4th 2013
The Factory Theatre
791 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02118
Two women and a man trapped in one room for eternity. With a twist on the immortal words of the Rolling Stones, you can't always get what you want; but if you try, sometimes, you just might find you NEVER GET what you need. Yes, hell is - other people!! With post-show discussions led by mental health professionals after EVERY performance, come see what psychologists have to say about what hell can be in our minds and in our relationships...
Tickets:
Buy online
Call 866-811-4111
April 25th - May 4th 2013
The Factory Theatre
791 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02118
Two women and a man trapped in one room for eternity. With a twist on the immortal words of the Rolling Stones, you can't always get what you want; but if you try, sometimes, you just might find you NEVER GET what you need. Yes, hell is - other people!! With post-show discussions led by mental health professionals after EVERY performance, come see what psychologists have to say about what hell can be in our minds and in our relationships...
Tickets:
Buy online
Call 866-811-4111
Hamlet
November 30th - December 17th 2011
The Plaza Black Box Theatre at the Boston center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street, Boston
The inaugural production of The Psych Drama Company will be a contemporary, psychology-driven interpretation of Hamlet, using Shakespeare's original language but playing extensively with subtext. Original music composed by Boston indie band Varsity Drag will add to the play's contemporary, edgy feel.
To live balanced, productive lives and to sustain healthy relationships, we all must balance the need to reflect with the need to act. This Hamlet production will explore this necessary dialectical tension between reflection and action within and between all of the characters in the play. We will study how the loss of this necessary dialectic leads to a deterioration in the individual characters' psyches and in their relationships with one another, inevitably leading to the tragedy that unfolds. As we explore subtext, this production of Hamlet will also delve deeply into the multiple facets of the personalities of the characters and the complexities of competing agendas and loyalties in the relationships they have with one another.
Our production features a female bisexual Hamlet. As such, the oedipal dynamics between Hamlet and Gertrude remain intact. For both the heterosexual male and the homosexual female, the original childhood love object remains the same: it is the mother. Furthermore, when Hamlet is a woman, her feelings about Gertrude and Ophelia are inextricably bound up with her own self-loathing.
Our production takes place in the present day. It takes place in an exceedingly wealthy, emotionally disturbed family with the few social connections that surround them. They have created an isolated world based on archaic, irrelevant titles and bizarre family rituals that are, at times, quite divorced from reality. There must be a reckoning with ghost(s) from the past: "remember me." The location is anywhere, everywhere.
Come reflect on Hamlet like you never have before. Come reflect on yourself.
November 30th - December 17th 2011
The Plaza Black Box Theatre at the Boston center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street, Boston
The inaugural production of The Psych Drama Company will be a contemporary, psychology-driven interpretation of Hamlet, using Shakespeare's original language but playing extensively with subtext. Original music composed by Boston indie band Varsity Drag will add to the play's contemporary, edgy feel.
To live balanced, productive lives and to sustain healthy relationships, we all must balance the need to reflect with the need to act. This Hamlet production will explore this necessary dialectical tension between reflection and action within and between all of the characters in the play. We will study how the loss of this necessary dialectic leads to a deterioration in the individual characters' psyches and in their relationships with one another, inevitably leading to the tragedy that unfolds. As we explore subtext, this production of Hamlet will also delve deeply into the multiple facets of the personalities of the characters and the complexities of competing agendas and loyalties in the relationships they have with one another.
Our production features a female bisexual Hamlet. As such, the oedipal dynamics between Hamlet and Gertrude remain intact. For both the heterosexual male and the homosexual female, the original childhood love object remains the same: it is the mother. Furthermore, when Hamlet is a woman, her feelings about Gertrude and Ophelia are inextricably bound up with her own self-loathing.
Our production takes place in the present day. It takes place in an exceedingly wealthy, emotionally disturbed family with the few social connections that surround them. They have created an isolated world based on archaic, irrelevant titles and bizarre family rituals that are, at times, quite divorced from reality. There must be a reckoning with ghost(s) from the past: "remember me." The location is anywhere, everywhere.
Come reflect on Hamlet like you never have before. Come reflect on yourself.
The Psych Drama Company combines psychological insight with dramatic art
to explore the timeless complexities of the human soul.
The Psych Drama Company is a 501(c)3 certified non-profit organization.
© 2011 The Psych Drama Company/Pandora’s Box Productions, Inc.
© 2011 The Psych Drama Company/Pandora’s Box Productions, Inc.
