Laughter is the best medicine.
Argan is a perfectly healthy, wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings on in his own household. However, his most efficacious cure will not appear in a bottle or a bedpan, but in his sharp tongued servant, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master’s eyes.
Following last year’s hysterical and critically acclaimed Tartuffe, Liverpool’s Poet Laureate, Roger McGough, dips his magic quill again by adapting another classic Molière comedy. This time he turns prose into verse with a witty laughter tonic. The Hypochondriac was Molière’s last play and a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the ‘quack’ medical profession.
A co-production with English Touring Theatre, The Hypochondriac will tour the UK in Autumn 2009.
A delightful concoction
What'sOnStage
An evening of sweet pleasure
The Times
The perfect tonic
Liverpool Daily Post
CAST
Leanne Best
Toinette
Simon Coates
Beralde
Toby Dantzic
Thomas
Clive Francis
Argan
Jake Harders
Cleante
Chris Porter
Bonnefoi, Monsieur Fleurant, Doctor Purgeon
Lucinda Raikes
Angelique
Brigid Zengeni
Beline
Neil Caple
Diaforius
COMPANY
Gemma Bodinetz
Director
Mike Britton
Designer
Conor Linehan
Composer
Charles Balfour
Lighting Designer
Jason Barnes
Sound Designer
Molière adapted by Roger McGough
Writer