Terry johnson
HYSTERIA
Translated by Danica ilić
Directed by Ivan Vuković
Set designer Ljubica Milanović
Costume designers Senka Kljakić, Marijana Radović
Dramaturge Miloš Krečković
Composers Miroslav Radulović
Premiere at Studio of Yugoslav drama Theatre: 12 May 2010. at 8.30 p.m.
Duration: approx. 1h 20’ with no intermission. |
ABOUT THE PLAY
In Hysteria, Terry Johnson’s surreal fantasia on psychotheapy and the holocoaust, there is a beau-
tiful and elegant exchange between Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud in Freud’s consulting roooms
in Hampstead. Dali urgently requests Freud’s opinion of his work (…) it’s a valuable insight into all
art, the importance of letting the unconscious, the hiddden, reveal itself and resisting the temptation
to render it.It’s also on essential key to understanding Johnson’s own art…Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade.
Ivan Vuković
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terry Johnson - (born 1955) is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film.
He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. At The Court he directed Dumb Show by Joe
Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte.
Johnson’s stage work has been produced around the world. He has won nine British Theatre awards including the Olivier award for Best Comedy 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play 1995, two evening Standard Theatre awards, the Writers’ Guild award for Best Play 1995 and 1996, the Meyer-Whitworth Award 1993 and the John Whiting Award 1991.
He has had many West end productions as director and/or writer including: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Hitchcock Blonde, Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Graduate, Dead Funny, Hysteria, Elton John’s Glasses and The Memory of Water.
He has worked with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, directing John Malkovich in The Libertine (nominated for f ive Joseph Jefferson Awards including Best Production) and Lost Land, both plays by Stephen Jeffreys.
He has written and directed television drama that has been broadcast worldwide, most recently Not Only But always for Channel 4, which won five international award nominations, Best Film at Banff, and a BAFTA for rhys ifans.
The film version of his play Insigniicance (directed by Nicolas Roeg) was the oficial British Entry at Cannes Film Festival in 1985.
As playwright: Days Here So Dark, Insigniicance, Cries From The Mammal House, Imagine Drowning,
Hysteria, London Cuckolds, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, The Graduate, Hitchcock Blonde…
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