Imaginary Invalid - Play
September 4, 2010
7:30 PM
Alliance Francaise De Bangalore
Bangalore
An Indian take on the timeless French comedy which deals with a hypochondriac and his desire to get his daughter married to a doctor.
Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) was the last play written by Moliere and was first performed in February 1673 in Paris. A satire of the medical profession, the play contains a good deal of farce and was written to amuse King Louis XIV. It is also a superb character study of a hypochondriac, or a patient obsessed with being ill, and it contains a brilliant social and political commentary on Paris in the 1670s. Argan, the invalid in the play, plots to get his daughter married to a doctor, hailing from a family of doctors in order to have them around to tend him for free. But will the daughter agree to marry him? Is there a reason behind Beline's affection to her husband Argan? What means will Toinette, the maid employ to alter the proceedings.
