Physician In Spite of Himself

The Physician In Spite of Himself … is written in a most unbounded spirit of mirth, the matrimonial breezes wafting a certain amount of refreshing coolness throughout it all. The way in which Sganarelle is dubbed, or rather drubbed a doctor, is highly amusing; and the cure of the dumb girl, and the use which she makes of her recovered speech, contains a philosophical lesson which may be sometimes applied to the way in which nouveaux riches spread their newly acquired wealth. The learned and anatomical disquisitions between Sganarelle and Geronte are also very entertaining, as well as the growth of greed in the rustic physician. - Summary by The Translator


Cast list:

Geronte, father to Lucinda: ToddHW

Leandre, Lucinda's lover: aravagarwal

Sganarelle, husband to Martine: Jason in Panama

Monsieur Robert, Sganarelle's neighbor: Roger Melin

Lucas, husband to Jacqueline: Tomas Peter

Valere, Geronte's servant: alanmapstone

Thibaut, peasant: Son of the Exiles

Perrin, his son: Owen Cook

Lucinda, Geronte's daughter: Leanne Yau

Martine, Sganarelle's wife: Devorah Allen

Jacqueline, nurse at Geronte's, and Lucas' wife: Sonia

Stage Directions: Sandra Schmit

Editor: ToddHW