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Reverse Psychology is
a masterful farce from the satiric pen of the late American
playwright Charles Ludlam. Using such standard devices of
farce as mistaken identity, improbable coincidences, and
the inopportune telephone call, Ludlam skewers the modern
penchant for psychological therapy as well as its practitioners.
The New York Times critic Frank Rich called the
play "...and intricate, madcap farce of the old school -
a conventional, contemporary sex comedy that plays by the
rules of Georges Feydeu..."
Charles Ludlam is America's version of Aristophanes. From the 1960s through the 1980s Ludlam was the reigning genius
of the Theatre of the Ridiculous movement and author of twenty-nine wildly comic and incredibly theatrical plays. As founder of the
Ridiculous Theatrical Company he wrote and directed all of the company's productions. More importantly, he starred in nearly all of
his own plays while maintaining, for nearly twenty years, a true repertory company of actors devoted to the art of comedy.
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