''Dr. Freud Will See You Now, Mrs. Hitler'' is an

alternate history Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As ...

play Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * P ...

written by

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comedy Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greec ...

writing duo Laurence Marks and

Maurice Gran Maurice Bernard Gran (born 26 October 1949 in London, England) is an English writer and one half of scriptwriting duo Marks and Gran. He co-wrote the sitcoms '' The New Statesman'', '' Birds of a Feather'' and '' Goodnight Sweetheart'' with La ...

.Andrew Bille
"Now, lie down on this couch"
''

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'', 9 April 2007. Retrieved on 26 May 2007. The play is an "

" dramatisation based on reports that

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

, then aged 6, was referred to

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( ; ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies seen as originating fro ...

for therapy at the latter's pædiatric psychotherapy clinic in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

, but did not go to meet him; the

point of divergence Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As ...

is that this meeting went ahead. The play was broadcast on 31 March 2007 in cut-down form by the

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on Radio 4 as part of ''

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''."Writers give the little Hitler a Freudian trip"
''Camden New Journal'', 10 May 2007. Retrieved on 26 May 2007. A semi-dramatised reading in aid of the

Freud Museum The Freud Museum in London is a museum dedicated to Sigmund Freud, located in the house where Freud lived with his family during the last year of his life. In 1938, after escaping Nazi annexation of Austria he came to London via Paris and ...

Foundation was performed on 13 May 2007 at the

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, and was followed by a panel discussion with the writers together with the Chair of the Freud Museum's Board,

Lisa Appignanesi Lisa Appignanesi (born Elżbieta Borensztejn; 4 January 1946) is a Polish-born British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. Until 2021, she was the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a former President of ...

, and an expert on Freud, Prof.

John Forrester (historian) John P. Forrester (25 August 1949 – 24 November 2015) was a British historian and philosopher of science and medicine. His main interests were in the history of the human sciences, in particular psychoanalysis and psychiatry. Life Born a ...

.Details of performance
Tricycle Theatre, 10 May 2007. Retrieved on 26 May 2007.

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* Alternate history plays BBC Radio 4 programmes 2007 audio plays Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler Cultural depictions of Sigmund Freud Plays based on real people {{2000s-play-stub