Wendy Lippe
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Wendy Lippe is an American clinical psychologist, actress and the Producing Artistic Director of the theatre troupe Psyche Drama Company.[1][2]
Career
Clinical psychology
Lippe practices cognitive therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Lippe served as an adjunct faculty member at Boston University's Centre for Anxiety and related disorders and was a clinical supervisor in its clinical psychology doctoral program. She stopped teaching in 2019. Currently, Lippe consults and lectures in the university's psychological and brain sciences departments.[3] She has offices in Cambridge, MA and Brooklyn.
Theatre and audio productions
Lippe's Psych Drama Company troupe explores the human psyche using theatre.[4] Lippe established the Boston-based troupe in 2011 to augment Greek and Shakespearian plays with insights from modern psychology. [5]The troupe's first production was William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Her production revolved around three large mirrors that explored human behaviours and interiors, with her characters glimpsing and occasionally speaking to their reflections.[5] By 2019 Lippe's theatre productions had evolved into immersive experiences involving the audience and included post-show discussions with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and mental health professionals from Harvard Medical School. By this time, the troupe had also begun staging more contemporary productions, such as Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage.[2]
Lippe's company planned to stage James Goldman's The Lion in Winter. However, they transposed the production to a radio drama format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [BUAudio] Her troupe adapted two more plays, William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.[3]
Lippe's adaptations reinterpret and apply clinical psychology to classical and classic plays.[6] Lippe played Blanche in the troupe's adaptation of Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire.[1]
Lippe's troupe produced a 90-minute audio version of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Serbian composer Žarko Dragojević created a suspenseful violin-led score for the production. The production portrayed Macbeth's paranoia as ominous, irregular sounds and voiced the protagonist's inner turmoil with whispers. And, augmented Shakespeare's narrative and dialogue with audio effects such as echo and voice overlapping.[4]
According to the Boston Globe, Lippe's productions "blur the boundaries between actors and audience".[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Barossi, Robert (2014-02-22). "BWW Reviews: Psych Drama Company and RI Shakespeare Company Present A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 2023-04-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Psych Drama Company is artist-in-residence at Foxborough theater". Community Newspaper Company. 2019-06-28. Retrieved 2023-04-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Brown, Joel (2021-09-09). "Audio Versions of Plays by Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams on Offer from Alum's Local Drama Company". Boston University. Retrieved 2023-04-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Diallo, Aissatou (2021-10-13). "'Macbeth' Review: Shakespeare, Featuring Your Imagination". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2023-04-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 Shea, Andrea (2011-12-02). "Psych Drama Company Puts Plays On Analyst's Couch". WBUR-FM. Retrieved 2023-04-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Robertson Souter, Catherine (2012-02-01). "Psychologists bring insights to stage". New England Psychologist. Retrieved 2023-04-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Byrne, Terry (2021-09-09). "Merrimack Rep eases back into live theater with 'Wild Horses'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2023-04-06. Unknown parameter
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