The Mystery of Anna O

N.p. N.p., Circa 1992. Revised Draft script for the 1992 play. Laid in with the script are approximately ten gatherings of revision pages, noted as "Outtakes" in manuscript pencil.

First staged off-Broadway at the John Houseman Studio Theater in the autumn of 1992. A dramatization of the experiences of "Anna O.," the pseudonym given to Bertha Pappenheim, the first psychoanalytic patient, treated by Josef Breuer, a friend and collaborator of Sigmund Freud. Playwrights Jerome Coopersmith and Lucy Freeman would go on to collaborate on "Reflections of a Murder," a 1998 off-Broadway murder mystery.

Script housed in a manila folder labeled "Anna O Early Draft and Out-Takes" in manuscript ink. Title page present, noted as Revised January 1990, with credits for Freeman and Coopersmith. 89 leaves, with last page of text numbered II-30. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with white revision pages throughout, dated 6/90 and 5/92. Pages Very Good plus, with some light offsetting to the first leaf, partially bound with a large paper clip at the top left corner.

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