IMAGINARY INVALID Closes at the Schoolhouse Theater 6/20

Emmy nominee Allyce Beasley and Broadway veteran John Tyrrell will be appearing in the Schoolhouse theater production of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid.Performances take place May 27-June 20 in Croton Falls New York.  The performance will be directed by Pamela Moller Kareman.

Originally presented in 1673, this hilarious play by Molière, the theater's ultimate master of farce, gives us Argon, a miserable hypochondriac whose imaginary illnesses and very real wealth attract the quackiest of quacks. Outlandish trickery and silliness abound when hypochondria and egoism combine as Argon declares, "I want attention and I want a lot of it!" He ingeniously devises his own healthcare plan; He'll marry his gorgeous daughter off to a geeky med student whose father is a doctor and uncle is a pharmacist and he'll never have to pay for healthcare again. Audiences will roar with laughter at Argon and his eccentrics who would all be perfectly at home in our present pill popping culture and profit driven health care system. Molière's unique blend of satire and slapstick will remind you that laughter is still the best medicine. 

Other cast members include: Sari Caine, Quinn Cassavale, Israel Gutierrez, Neal Mayer, Bruce Sabath, and John Schuman.

 

For more information, visit www.schoolhousetheater.org.

The mission of The Schoolhouse Theater is to enhance the life of the community through live, professional, regional, theater. Their goal is to support and promote the theatrical arts, to encourage actors, directors and playwrights, as well as to support and promote other art forms. This is a wide umbrella, enabling us to create opportunities for artists to challenge themselves and grow, and to enrich the lives of student interns, senior volunteers, and audience members. All of our theater programming, including mainstage productions, workshops, classes, and staged readings, introduces our patrons to award-winning playwrights as well as emerging talented voices.

The Schoolhouse has been honored by visits from theater luminaries Jules Feiffer, George Furth, Tina Howe, Michael Weller, and Broadway composers, Richard Maltby and David Shire, who all came to see productions of their work and to lend their support to the theater.

 

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