Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/09/2021 - 25/09/2021
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STIRLING COMMUNITY THEATRE
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People have been laughing at The Hypochondriac for nearly 350 years. They will be at it again at the Stirling Community Theatre in September, when The Stirling Players stage Molière’s classic farce. It opened in 1673, and was Molière’s last play, satirising the wealthy French bourgoisie and the medical profession of the time.
He himself played the lead role but was genuinely ill with tuberculosis and died backstage after one of the performances. The play has been revised in various forms many times since then, in theatres from Russia to the US.
The Stirling Players’ production is based on the translation by Charles Heron Wall, a nineteenth century school teacher in England, known for his translations of several of Molière’s plays.
“I feel we need a bit of a laugh at the moment,” Director, Angela Short says.
“Why did I choose this play? Firstly because I love Molière and it is very funny.”
She says she aims to bring together elements of Commedia dell’arte, Pantomime and French-style black comedy. “I love how life can be quite farcical and yet very real. That is what we are aiming for. It is still early days in rehearsal, so we are saying ‘Push it as far as you can.’ The excellent actors we have in this production are really going for it!”
“Molière did not hold back on his use of toilet humour in his plays.
I feel it would be rude not to appreciate it.”
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