‘The Two Hander,’ With Wit and Energy, Brings Therapy to the Stage From the Couch
For those weary of Broadway’s brassy spectacles, a terrific play on the Jersey Shore brings in an ambivalent verdict on Freud’s legacy.
‘The Two Hander’
Written by Julia Blauvelt
Directed by SuzAnne Barabas
New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch, New Jersey
Through May 19
“The Two-Hander,” is a play about therapy, a practice that is itself a bit theatrical. It has a stage (the therapist’s office), a prop,(the couch), two protagonists (the therapist and patient), and a script (questions about childhood, say). Like the theater, therapy can be both sincere and stilted. They both trade in masks, and maintain that you can talk yourself into trouble or to the truth. “The Two-Hander” reminds that theater can be its own therapy.
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