The Imaginary Invalid
Theatre
Description
Description
In 1673, the final play by French comedy master Molière—The Imaginary Invalid—premiered in Paris. The story concerns a hypochondriac who spends so much money paying for fake cures that he is forced to try to marry his daughter to a doctor in order to reduce his medical bills. During the fourth performance of the play, the author (in the title role) collapsed on stage coughing up blood. He insisted on completing the performance, but with tragic irony the ‘imaginary’ invalid died soon after. As a playwright famous for his outspoken, dark-edged and often dangerous satires against powerful people, Molière may well have found his own demise in such circumstances very funny.
In this revival production, HKAPA School of Drama’s former Head of Acting, Peter Jordan, stays as close as possible to the original spirit of the play, including its lively musical interludes replete with dance and acrobatics, but without straying too far from the serious undercurrent that is ever-present in many of Molière’s finest pieces.
Translator：Anthony Chan
Director：Peter Jordan
Cast：Chow Chi Fai; Kiki Cheung; Mercy Wong; Manman Kwok
Set Designer：Yuen Hon Wai
Costume Designer：Gigi Choa
Lighting Designer：Billy Chan
Composer & Sound Designer：Frankie Ho
Choreographer：Karen Chan
Details of other production units are only available in Chinese
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Theatre Yearbook 2015 – Dance, Drama and Xiqu" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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