The Imaginary Invalid

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Programme Description

A comedy classic by master playwright Molière and a caricature of human weaknesses

Desperate measures by a hypochondriac expose a house full of falseness
 

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.

Programme Details

Accessible Performance

Date: 31 May 2015 (Sun)

Time: 2:45pm

Venue: Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall

Other Performances

Date (1): 16, 19–23, 26–30 May 2015

Time (1): 7:45pm

Date (2): 17, 23, 24, 30 May 2015

Time (2): 2:45pm

Ticketing

Accessible Performance

Price: $280 / $240 / $180

Other Performances

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Weekday Special (Only applicable to performances from Tue to Thu, except on public holidays): $260 / $220 / $160

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