The Talking Cure presented by Idle Muse Theatre Company at Rivendell Theatre

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...Their affair and Spielrein's influence on Jung's thinking are Hampton's primary concerns, but the characters are all head, no heart. Evan Jackson's staging for Idle Muse Theatre Company feels stuffy and remote, and each cast member has been saddled with an almost comically thick German or Russian accent. The only sparks of feeling come from Caty Gordon's spunky Sabina."

Stage and Cinema - Recommended

"...Thanks to Evan Jackson’s masterful direction, Doolin’s Jung and Mahler’s Freud run the playwright’s fascinating gamut very well indeed. Gordon’s divided and divisive Sabina becomes a living ghost who inspires and defies the new psycho-science. Delusions and revelations abound–and once again theater proves that it’s the ultimate “talking cure.”"

Chicago Stage and Screen - Not Recommended

"...Yet, it is this production’s very existence that galls the soul. With all the subversive, stimulating work being done by local playwrights, the act of producing a middle aged work by a populist British playwright that has already been made into a high profile movie seems aggressively tone-deaf. There is no modern relevance in The Talking Cure. It is history as intrigue, two and a half hours of psychoanalytic pillow talk that never even gets to foreplay."

The Fourth Walsh - Somewhat Recommended

"...THE TALKING CURE mixes history and psychology in this true story of psychoanalysis roots. It’s especially fascinating from Jung’s perspective since Freud became more legendary over the generations. Although I thought it could be tighter, I enjoyed my therapy session."