Nicholas Wright's play about the controversial psychoanalyst
Melanie Klein is a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter
relationships. In 1934 the son of Melanie Klein, Britain's most
admired psychoanalyst, was reported killed in a climbing accident.
There were no witnesses. Nicholas Wright's play shows the effect of
this shattering and unexpected death on Mrs Klein, on her daughter
and on her new assistant Paula, a young refugee from Hitler's
Berlin. Melanie Klein had herself come to Britain from Berlin with
a controversial mission to extend psychoanalysis to infants. But
her analysis of her own children has damaged her relationship with
them almost beyond repair, and the news of her son's death provokes
a bitter confrontation with her daughter. Nicholas Wright's Mrs
Klein was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 1988.
This edition was published alongside the revival at the Almeida
Theatre in 2009.
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