C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, SeattleEvening Performance: Saturday, June 17, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Trinity Parish, Eighth & James St., Seattle (Directions)
Tickets at the door: $12 members of C.G. Jung Society, NW Alliance, COR, Analytic Programs; $15 general public
Many people know something of the classic love triangle of Toni Wolff, Carl Jung, and his wife, Emma. What of the women’s relationship to each other? Both were intellectual, independent, self- educated, in turn-of-the-century Switzerland, when women did not attend university. Both were hungry for another woman to talk to about ideas -- the role of women and society, the role of the Feminine in the affairs of nations, and in defining the new science: psychology.
Their relationship spanned 40 years, from pre-World War I to the dawn of the Atomic Age. It ran the gamut from intellectually isolated “sisters,” to rivals for Jung’s intellectual favors, to enemies in the war for his intimate affections, to the most improbable of friends. And each had a separate relationship with C.G. Jung that became part of the fabric of the women’s connection to one another.
The play evokes themes endemic to our modern world: betrayal, oppression, passion, loss, corruption, redemption.
The Other Woman features psychoanalyst/actor Rikki Ricard (Antigone in Oedipus at Colonus) as Emma Jung, and Elizabeth Clark Stern, playwright/therapist/actor, as Toni Wolff. Carl Jung is played by Paul Collins, Episcopal priest of Trinity Parish Church, and member of Seattle’s Jung Society Board. Directed by therapist/artist/director, Shierry Nicholsen (Oedipus at Colonus)
Updated: 8 May, 2006
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