100th Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Discussion Group #11 on Theater and Psychoanalysis
Co-chairs: Fred Sander and Jed Sekoff
Reading of the main plot of
W.S. Gilbert’s
Original Mythological Comedy
Pygmalion and Galatea
PALACE HOTEL (Ralston Room)
June 8, 2011 4 pm
First produced at the Haymarket Theatre (London)
December 9, 1871
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Pygmalion, an Athenian Sculptor Randy Hurst
Galatea, an Animated Statue Jenna Welch
Cynisca, Pygmalion’s Wife Sylvia Kratins
Narrator and other minor roles Fred Sander
Director Randy Hurst
The action is comprised within the space of twenty-four hours
A discussion will follow
including Stuart Kendal (Cultural historian and currently Chair of Critical
Studies at the California College of the Arts.
Who’s Who in the Cast
Randy Hurst (Director/ Pygmalion) is a member of Actors’ Theatre of San Francisco. He has been active as an actor on San Francisco Bay Area stages for 30 years as well as acting in film and commercials over that time frame. He considers his performance as Joe Keller in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” as one of his finest. He is happy to be a part of this exciting project.
Sylvia Kratins (Cynisca) has been acting since she was a child. In the Bay Area, she has worked with Central Works, Hapgood Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, Pear Avenue Theatre, TheatreQ, and Off Broadway West among others. Sylvia is a long-standing member of the San Francisco based women’s acapella chorus, Conspiracy of Venus. She is delighted to have the opportunity to participate in this project.
Jenna Welch (Galatea) is a long standing actor and member of the Actors’ Theatre of San Francisco. Her most recent roles are Maggie in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and Stella in “Streetcar Named Desire,” (currently in production at Actors Theatre of San Francisco. She teaches acting in her free time and has been on the stage for 15 years in a multitude of successful and award winning projects. She is excited to be a part of this venture.
Fred Sander (Narrator and Producer) Psychoanalyst, family therapist, author Individual and Family Therapy:Toward an Integration (1979) and Created In Our Images.com (2010), Produced full reading of Pgymalion and Galatea in Cami Hall, New York (2003)
CREATED IN OUR OWN IMAGES.COM
The Play, is re-published (replicated) by IPBooks.net (2010)
and available on Amazon.com
W.S. Gilbert first produced his most popular play, Pygmalion and Galatea in 1871. It is one of hundreds of recreations of the myth of Pygmalion initially recorded by Ovid at the start of the 1st century. In the play Pygmalion has made numerous copies of his wife Cynisca, one of which, Galatea, comes to life and falls in love with him.
The play is a convincing metaphor for cloning in our age of the genome. Toward this end Dr. Fred Sander, a psychoanalyst and family therapist, has re-published the play in this book. Dr. Sander, a psychoanalyst and family therapist, has invited a group of scholars, journalists and professors to provide a fascinating series of essays reflecting our human instinct to reproduce ourselves in our own images of one another. From biological, to psychological, sociological, cultural and now biogenetic reproductions, we could name our species homo-replicans.
This book is written for the general public, the creative teacher, Savoyard, adventurous dramaturge, and the curious student. This collection takes the reader from a work of art, written in the 19th century, to the emergence of psychoanalysis and nuclear physics in the 20th century, to molecular biology in the 21st century. From God’s creation of man in the Book of Genesis to Dr. Frankenstein’s creation, to man’s quest to become god-like.