Word: pseudofreudian
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...opening act, perhaps because he is trying to assume the reserved manners of the nineteenth century gentleman. His portrayal of Simon as a greedy, emotionally disturbed young man is otherwise as precise as the script allows. It's bothersome that we're never given more than a simplistic, pseudoFreudian explanation for his yearning to return to mother and childhood. His ambivalent desire for escape is so key to the movement of the play that it should have more solid roots. Ann Varley is wellcast in the part of the young wife. Her Irish brogue doesn't sound particularly authentic...
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