{"id":41682,"date":"2016-10-12T03:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T07:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=41682"},"modified":"2016-10-12T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:56:30","slug":"department-of-theatre-and-film-to-present-molieres-comedy-the-imaginary-invalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_12_2016\/department-of-theatre-and-film-to-present-molieres-comedy-the-imaginary-invalid","title":{"rendered":"Department of Theatre and Film to present Moli\u00e8re\u2019s comedy ‘The Imaginary Invalid’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UT Department of Theatre and Film will present Moli\u00e8re\u2019s final play, \u201cThe Imaginary Invalid,\u201d Friday through Sunday, Oct. 14-16 and Oct. 21-23, in the Center for Performing Arts Center Theatre. <\/p>\n

Performance times are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. <\/p>\n

\"Ang\u00e9lique<\/a>

Ang\u00e9lique (Tessa Lee, who is majoring in theatre and nursing) and her love interest, Cl\u00e9ante (Michael Miller, who is majoring in bioengineering), share a stolen moment under the disapproving watch of her father, Argan (Carter Makiewicz, a theatre major) in this scene from the UT production of Moli\u00e8re\u2019s \u201cThe Imaginary Invalid.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\u201cThe Imaginary Invalid\u201d is the story of a hopeless hypochondriac who attempts to endow himself with a lifetime of free medical care by marrying his daughter off to a doctor she doesn’t love. But his house servant has the real cure for what ails him. <\/p>\n

The UT production will be directed by Holly Monsos, an associate dean in the College of Arts and Letters, and a professor in the Department of Theatre and Film.<\/p>\n

The production will incorporate a mix of period and contemporary style. For example, the costuming will be contemporary, but also will include period references. She is using the online Project Gutenberg translation by Charles Heron Wall, but the play will maintain its historical \u2014\u00a0and hysterical \u2014 period medical information. In Moli\u00e8re\u2019s day, techniques such as bloodletting, enemas, and other forms of bodily purging were common, and theories such as a circulatory system within the body were, in the words of one character, nothing but \u201cpretended discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n

This classic larger-than-life comedy was Moli\u00e8re\u2019s last play, as well as the last performance in which he played the \u201cinvalid\u201d himself. <\/p>\n

\u201cTheatre folklore has it that Moli\u00e8re\u2019s lines become a self-fulfilling prophecy when he collapsed onstage and later died,\u201d Monsos said. <\/p>\n

In the script, his character chides the writer of the play \u2014\u00a0Moli\u00e8re\u2014 and wishes that in Moli\u00e8re\u2019s final hours, no skilled doctors would attend him and he would die as a result, she said. Almost on cue, he is thought to have done just that.<\/p>\n

The cast features UT students Kaitlyn Beacom as De Bonnefoi\/Quartius Doctor; Danielle Hale as Beralde\/Chorus; Keeyong Hong as Fleurant\/Praeses; Rachel Hybarger as Diafoirus\/Primus Doctor; Shaquira Jackson as Toinette\/Chorus; Wonhee Kim as Beline\/Chorus; Nik Lee as Thomas\/Chorus; Tessa Lee as Ang\u00e9lique\/Chorus; Carter Makiewicz as Argan\/Bachelierus; Michael Miller as Cl\u00e9ante\/Chorus; Justin Petty as Purgon\/Tertius Doctor; and Amber Zuccarell as Louison\/Secundus Doctor.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $8 for students and children; $10 for UT faculty, staff and alumni, and military members and seniors; and $15 for the general public. Call 419.530.ARTS (2787) or order online at http:\/\/utoledo.tix.com<\/a>. Tickets also will be available at the door.<\/p>\n

Full season passes, which include all plays and film events for the 2016-17 Theatre and Film Department Season, are available through Sunday, Oct. 23. A full season pass is $120 for general admission; $70 for UT employees and alumni, military members, and seniors 60 and older; and $65 for students. For more information, call 419.530.ARTS (2787) or go to utoledo.tix.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UT Theatre and Film Department will present Moli\u00e8re\u2019s \u201cThe Imaginary Invalid\u201d Friday through Sunday, Oct. 14-16 and Oct. 21-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,5,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41778,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41682\/revisions\/41778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}