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My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of The Doctor’s Dilemma, a production from A Noise Within, now playing at their theater in Pasadena.
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The Doctor’s Dilemma
George Bernard Shaw’s turn-of-the-century play is a platform for his diatribe against doctors. Shaw’s passionate distrust and satirical takedown of the medical profession is wrapped up in a slightly dull, five-act drama that’s enlivened by mildly comedic undercurrents and interesting discussions on contemporary morality.
Sir Colenso Ridgeon (Geoff Elliott) has just been knighted for developing a revolutionary new cure for tuberculosis. As he celebrates with several colleagues, including some who practice questionable methods for their own gain, Sir Colenso is petitioned by a ravishing beauty (Jules Willcox), who begs him to cure her ailing husband, Louis Dubedat (Jason Dechert). The lovestruck Colenso faces a series of moral dilemmas that prove his undoing.
Dechert is good as the smoothly charming artist with sublime talents, blithely grifting everyone he meets without a qualm. Freddy Douglas, however, overplays his pompous Walpole, giving him a boisterous and shrill tenor that undermines the comedy.
The Doctor’s Dilemma
3352 E. Foothill Blvd.,
Pasadena.
In rep.
Performance Schedule:
Saturday, Oct 27, 2pm
Saturday, Oct 27, 8pm
Sunday, Oct 28, 2pm
Friday, Nov 2 at 8pm
Thursday, Nov 8, 8pm
Friday, Nov 9, 8pm
Sunday, Nov 11, 2pm
Sunday, Nov 11, 7pm
Saturday, Nov 17, 2pm
Saturday, Nov 17, 8pm
Saturday, Nov 24, 8pm
Sunday, Nov 25, 2pm
Box Office: (626) 356-3100
Plays through Nov. 25, 2012.
Terry Morgan
