Beyond Therapy

LIVE THEATRE IN VALENCIA
May 16th, 17th, & 24th, 2026

A comedy about love, madness, and the therapists who make it all worse.

The VLC Playground is bringing Christopher Durang’s absurdist comedy Beyond Therapy to Valencia – performed entirely in English.

Beyond Therapy follows two people who meet through a personal ad and attempt to navigate love, identity, and a pair of spectacularly unhelpful therapists— sharp, funny, and delightfully unhinged. Beyond Therapy follows Bruce and Prudence, two neurotic people who meet through a personal ad and stumble their way toward something resembling a relationship. The catch: they’re both in therapy. The bigger catch: their therapists are even more of a mess than they are.

First staged on Broadway in 1982, the play has lost none of its bite. Questions of identity, vulnerability, and the very human need to be understood feel just as relevant today as they did four decades ago – the result is a comedy that is equal parts absurd, tender, and genuinely sharp.

If you enjoy theatre that makes you laugh while quietly pulling the rug out from under you, this one is worth your time.

TICKETS: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vlcplayground/2185231

Report by 24/7 Valencia team

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Cast: Alexander van Ratingen, Whitney Russell, Catalina Serrano Bucheli, Lo Banks, Andrew Mehlhorn Haller, and Alejandro Alonso.

• Saturday, May 16th at 19:00
  Location: Espai Inestable – C/ d’Aparisi i Guijarro, 7

• Sunday, May 17th at 18:00
  Location: Espai Inestable – C/ d’Aparisi i Guijarro, 7

• Sunday, May 24th at 12:30 and 18:00
  Location: La Maquina – C/ Padre Jofré, 7