THE PATIENT

Support from the Centre National des Lettres for the publication

The Book :

L’Avant Scène theatre.
Quatre-Vents series – 2nd reprint
ISBN: 2-7498-0921-5
Price: 10 euros

Cast :

2: 1 woman and 1 man


The Plot :

Catherine, a dynamic thirty-year old with an artistic background, a husband and two lively children, feels satisfied with life. Even so she consults a shrink. This play is an experiment (almost a thriller) with language. Just like the psychoanalytical cure or the first stirrings of love. This is a real love story. It is, therefore, out of bounds.

Translations :

- Translation into Turkish by Ferhan Sensoy

Dramatic Productions :
Anca Visdei's play
THE PATIENT
director : Jean-Luc Solal,
with Jean-Luc Solal and Florence Hebbelynk

July 2007
Theatre Le Laurette
36, rue Bichat - 75010 Paris
Anca Visdei's play
THE PATIENT

June 2007
Theatre Jean Vilar
Montpellier (34000)

-at the Kursaal, Besançon, then at the Festival d'Avignon (2002, 2006), directed and acted by Manuelle Lotz and Alexandre Tournier
-at Tremplin Théâtre and later at Guichet Montparnasse, Paris, directed by Guillaume Armide with Juliette Stevez, Alexandre Barbe et Jean-Luc Verna
-adapted as « Aptallara Güzel Gelen Televizyon Dizilery » , acted and directed by Ferhan Sensoy. Tour in Turkey and Great Britain (Theatre Hackney Empire, London)
Reviews :

-« An experience reminiscent of The Diary of Bridget Jones and Woody Allen’s psychoanalytical anguish »
Théâtre(s) n°1 de l’Express


-« Excellent study on time and the imagination »
Théâtre(s) n°2 de l’Express


-« Sculpted dialogue in the raw… irony brandished like a shield……a scintillating verbal contest. A love story to make the medical world tremble. »
The entertainment week


-« A play unexpected as it is droll. A turbulent life in which there is plenty of spice. The Patient is a must which one can go back to.
- As soon as the curtain rises the dialogue shoots back and forth, comes alive, torments. »
Dernières nouvelles d’Alsace


-« We easily get into the mood of this combat with its underlying causticity. »
Le Progrès