Argan, played by multi-talented Clive Francis (who starred in and directed Three Men in a Boat, as well as adapting the recent stage production of Hound of the Baskervilles), is a perfectly healthy and 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 effective 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 critically acclaimed Tartuffe, Liverpool’s Poet Laureate, Roger McGough, dips his magic quill again to adapt another classic Molière comedy. The Hypochondriac was Molière’s last play and a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the ‘quack’ medical profession. Un tour de farce.

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