Encore Arts Programs

Playing doctor takes on a whole new meaning

A hilarious muddle of misunderstandings, A Doctor in Spite of Himself captures the earthy, silly, deep pleasures of pandemonium. When a marital squabble escalates and a spirited wife decides to get revenge on her scoundrel of a husband, he turns the tables on her (and the richest family in town) with his own definition of “in sickness and in health.” The spirit of Molière demands a great and virtuosic playfulness from the artists who bring his extravagantly comic...