Morris Ertman saves the good scripts for himself. The longtime artistic director of Rosebud may be an old soul who sees the big picture on most issues, but when he gets his hands on a nuanced, well-written script, like Doubt: A Parable, by a Pulitzer Prize (and Academy Award) winning playwright John Patrick Shanley, he won’t let go.
What if Freud had a few issues? That’s part of the premise explored in Freud’s Last Session, playwright Mark St. Germain’s compelling, intelligent rendering of an imagined meeting between the famed psychoanalyst and fantasy author C.S. Lewis, which opened Wednesday at Rosebud’s Studio Stage.
What if. Those are the two simple words that have launched many a memorable story over the years. (What if scientists made dinosaurs come back to life? What if two slackers stumbled across a time travel machine?)