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Florida Studio Theatre has announced Freud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain will have a limited engagement beginning March 12 in the Keating Theatre. Tickets range from $32 to $34 and may be pur- chased from the box office at 1241 N. Palm Ave. in Sarasota, by calling 366-9000 or going online at FloridaStudioTheatre.org. "Freud's Last Session is in an imagined depic- tion of a meeting between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, set in the final days of Freud's life, on the very day that England entered the Second World War," a news release explains. The play was inspired by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi Jr.'s book The Question of God, which speculates on this meeting between Freud and Lewis "that history can neither confirm nor deny," the release adds. "St. Germain's play takes the scenario one step farther, bringing the imagined meeting to life in exquisite, thought-provoking detail," the release continues. St. Germain previously worked with Florida Studio Theatre on last year's production of Best of Enemies, the release notes. Director Kate Alexander describes the show in the release: "World War II was one of the most horrific times in the 20th century," and it "birthed" existentialists such as Freud, Camus, Sartre and Beauvoir, "who could not believe that a God could exist amidst such world depravity." FST ANNOUNCES LIMITED ENGAGEMENT OF FREUD'S LAST SESSION George Crowley (left) and Jeffrey Plunkett in Freud's Last Session. Contributed photo by Brian Braun. Sarasota News Leader March 14, 2014 Page 105