“So I think anybody who sees it will be quite pleased and quite impressed with what these actors have created in these roles.” That’s George Cron, director of Springfield Contemporary Theatre’s new production of Mark St. Germain’s play “Freud’s Last Session”, which opens this weekend at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza. Joining Cron in our studio were his two actors, Terry Bloodworth and Actor’s Equity member David Schmittou. The play is based on an actual event that took place September 3 rd , 1939, the day England declared war on Germany and officially entered World War II. Legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud invited rising star at Oxford University, writer, professor and lay theologian C. S. Lewis, to meet with him at his home in London. As George Cron describes it, “C.S. Lewis arrives, and is a little concerned and curious as to why he might be invited.” Actually, Lewis had a pretty good idea why. “He realizes that Freud is rather disturbed with C.S. Lewis’s conversion (to
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