“Perhaps the height of your low life to crush a man
who could have changed the world.”

 

The Destruction of Wilhelm Reich

10 minutes  ·  3 men

Renegade psychoanalyst and scientist, Wilhelm Reich was the victim of a smear campaign by the Food and Drug Administration in the 1950s. His books were burned and his equipment destroyed. In this play, Reich watches the destruction of his work and confronts the man from the FDA when the destruction is done, railing against the small-minded men who crush the man of genius because they fear to live fully and freely.