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"""Anna Furse presents a fascinating piece of theatre in which she uses a stylised form to explore factual content."" - Time Out ""...one of the most important plays in the new feminist theatre of hysteria. Anna Furse draws on the history of phychiatry to produce innovative performance that is also a critique of the psychoanalytic appropriation of women. Augustine is set in the Paris clinic of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot. From 1882 to the year of his death in 1893, Charcot was the impresario of a group of `hysterical' women who become known, as stars, queens, and divas."" - From Elaine Showalter's introduction ""...a winner...unnervingly in tune with modern feeling."" - The Times"

Anna Furse presents a fascinating piece of theatre in which she uses a stylised form to explore factual content. - Time Out ...one of the most important plays in the new feminist theatre of hysteria. Anna Furse draws on the history of phychiatry to produce innovative performance that is also a critique of the psychoanalytic appropriation of women. Augustine is set in the Paris clinic of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot. From 1882 to the year of his death in 1893, Charcot was the impresario of a group of `hysterical' women who become known, as stars, queens, and divas. - From Elaine Showalter's introduction ...a winner...unnervingly in tune with modern feeling. - The Times

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