Dr. Freud Will See You Now, Mrs. Hitler

Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler is an alternate history play written by the British comedy writing duo Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The play is an "alternate history" dramatisation based on reports that Adolf Hitler, then aged 6, was referred to Sigmund Freud for therapy at the latter's pædiatric psychotherapy clinic in Vienna, but did not go to meet him; the point of divergence is that this meeting went ahead. It began as a 2007 BBC radio drama and received its world stage premiere at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in London in September 2025.

Radio broadcast

The play was broadcast on 31 March 2007 in cut-down form by the BBC on Radio 4 as part of The Saturday Play. The hour-long production, directed by Peter Kavanagh, starred Toby Jones, Allan Corduner, Sophie Winkleman, Christine Kavanagh, John Dougall, Sam Dale, Jasmine Callan, Mark Straker, and Anthony Glennon. A reading in aid of the Freud Museum Foundation was performed on 13 May 2007 at the Tricycle Theatre, and was followed by a panel discussion with the writers together with the Chair of the Freud Museum's Board, Lisa Appignanesi, and an expert on Freud, Prof. John Forrester (historian).

Stage adaptation

The play received its world stage premiere at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate, London, running from 4 to 28 September 2025. The production was covered by BBC Radio 4's Front Row. The production was directed by Isaac Bernier-Doyle and produced by Annlouise Butt for Chromolume, the venue's in-house producing company.