ENGLISH Touring Theatre’s irrepressibly funny new adaptation of Moliere’s The Hypochondriac is a tonic guaranteed to lift the spirits this winter at The Nuffield from Tuesday to Saturday.
The Hypochondriac was French playwright Molière’s last play and a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the ‘quack’ medical profession. Adapted by Liverpool’s Poet Laureate Roger McGough, this cunning and witty new production has been a hit with audiences and critics alike.
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, Toinette, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master’s eyes… For tickets, call 023 8067 1771 or visit
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