The Mad Master

The Mad Master

The Mad Master is a meditation on time and the sex drive. The title comes from the time when Plato asked Socrates, when he was really old, how sex was now. And Socrates replied “Most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master. When we are freed from the Mad Master, we are freed from the grasp of not just one master, but of many.”

The Mad Master was commissioned by the Audrey Skirball Kenis Foundation.

Development: Zachery Scott Theatre

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