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Performance

VenueTheatre Royal
Also: Ustinov Studio,The Egg
TownBath
CountyBath & North East Somerset
From28th July 1998
To1st August 1998
Theatre Royal (V854)
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The Doctor's Dilemma

Work:: The Doctor's Dilemma (S3038)

Harley Street doctor Sir Colenso Ridgeon's revolutionary tuberculosis treatment remains experimental and his resources restricted to ten selected patients. I have had to consider, not only whether a man could be saved, but whether he was worth saving. The arrival of the striking and persuasive Jennifer Dubedat, desperate to save the life of her brilliant artist husband, nevertheless prompts Ridgeon to invite the young couple to a dinner where he and his colleagues may assess the merits of the case. Beguiled by the charismatic Dubedat and his lovely wife, they concur that his is a life worth saving, even at the expense of another. Yet no sooner are the medics congratulating themselves n their decision, than they are confronted by Dubedat's questionable morality. Meanwhile, their impoverished colleague Blenkinsop, the most worthy but least exceptional of the lot, reveals himself in dire need of treatment. Well, Mr Saviour of Lives: which is it to be? Disturbingly funny and psychologically incisive, Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma takes on with an irreverent glee the dubious ethics of the men who play God.
Author George Bernard Shaw

Production:: (T1366125184)

Director Michael Grandage
Design Christopher Oram
Lighting Hartley TA Kemp
Sound John A Leonard
Music Julian Philips
Performer Ian McDiarmid
Performer Tony Britton
Performer James Callis
Performer Victoria Hamilton
Performer Martin Jarvis

Listing:: L1979244740




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