Interesting but not entertaining - that sums up the final event of the Charleston section of the Brighton Festival.

The two halves were about Sigmund Freud, the most famous psychoanalyst, who met the Woolfs and whose work was published by their Hogarth company.

The performance was a cross between drama, readings, a touch of comedy and learning some basic psychoanalysis.

The second half, called Why War?, was based on correspondence between Freud and Einstein, encouraged by the League of Nations between the two world wars.

Actor, director and producer Henry Goodman played Freud in this premiere reading of his adaptation of the letters. We learnt the two geniuses forecasted the need for a United Nations but realised it would be a difficult task - because humans, with all their emotions, would be running it.

But it was much less a performance than a university lecture.