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Love, Genius and a Walk, a new play about Mahler comes to Theatro Technis

Published on

January 26, 2020

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Now in its third London production, Love, Genius and a Walk returns in a brand new production at Theatro Technis in April 2020.

Love, Genius and a Walk - the fascinating story of composer and conductor Gustav Mahler, written by the New York Writer Gay Walley will play at Theatro Technis in a new production directed by Leah Townley in April 2020.

The story explores the theories of Sigmund Freud, who Mahler met, together with Mahler’s approach to composing and how this might have physically manifested itself. This includes a focus on his relationship with his wife Alma, an amazing woman and composer in her own right. The play also contrasts the role of women in the 19th century with the character of a female writer in contemporary scenes.

Love, Genius and a Walk is a play that shows how art and marriage can make odd bedfellows. Gustav Mahler, the world-renowned composer and conductor, wants his wife to be his muse, but Alma desires the closeness that he cannot give, he thinks, in order to get his work done. Mahler turns to the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud for guidance, and both men find that neither of them may be that clued up about women.

At the same time, a modern couple's life mirrors Alma and Mahler's, except here she is the artist who works all the time, and their conundrum is a commercially-oriented husband whose thoughts on art can be a touch confounding. The two stories twist and turn through the quagmires of love and genius, much of it to the sweeping music of Mahler.

Love, Genius and a Walk toured the UK in 2019, and was nominated for 6 prizes, including Best Play, at the Midtown Festival in New York. From 7 April - 2 May 2020 at Theatre Technis. BOOK NOW FOR LOVE, GENIUS AND A WALK

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