Event

Therapy and Resistance

Carlyle Brown & Company presents
Therapy and Resistance
A new one-man play
Written and performed by Carlyle Brown
Directed by Noël Raymond
Lighting by Mike Wangen

Therapy and Resistance is the newest work of nationally renowned playwright Carlyle Brown, a 2010 honoree of the Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre. Set in 1968, a cataclysmic year of civil strife in America, Therapy and Resistance tells the story of the Viet Nam War draft resistance movement and the attempts of one draftee to get a deferment as a "manic-depressive schizophrenic with paranoid tendencies."

The play unfolds through a personal narrative laced with biting humor and political satire, finding contrasts and parallels between 1968 and now, when the country is likewise at war and divided from it's self. Told from the perspective of a young African American man, but peopled with a myriad cast of characters, from a motherly recruiting officer to a enigmatic behavioral psychiatrist, Therapy and Resistance deftly explores the madness of war and the madness it causes in individuals.

Carlyle Brown's plays include The African Company Presents Richard III, The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show, Buffalo Hair, and Pure Confidence. Therapy and Resistance is his third solo show. His most recent one-man play, The Fula from America, was named "Outstanding New Show of 2003" by the Star Tribune, and also selected as one of the "10 Best Plays of the Year" by City Pages. Variety called it, "A real tour-de-force recalling the best work of such monologists as Lily Tomlin and Spalding Gray." Since its premiere in 2003, The Fula from America has toured across the country to critical and popular acclaim.