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The Doctor's Dilemma

By: George Bernard Shaw
Narrated by: full cast
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Editor reviews

Read this 1906 Shaw play about medical ethics, and you might wonder if the master wit had nodded a bit. On the page this satire of doctors faced with the choice of curing the tuberculosis of either an unscrupulous but talented artist or a meek friend might seem old-fashioned. But hear this thrilling performance by L.A. Theatre Works, and you will wonder how your reading missed the many delights of the work. In the hands of director Rosalind Ayres and her cast, the satire elicits steady laughs from the live audience as the Harley Street medical cronies become a seamless comic ensemble, and, best of all, each of the play's many shifts from comedy to drama is brought off unerringly. Listeners will admire the skill of L.A. Theatre Works at capturing the energy and intelligence of this play.

Summary

The blowhards, the know-it-alls, the scrupulous and the impecunious are all targets for Shaw's incisive wit in his classic satire of the medical profession. A well-respected physician is forced to choose whom he shall save: a bumbling friend or the ne'er-do-well husband of the woman he loves.

Includes a conversation with Dr. Neil Wenger, the Director of the Healthcare Ethics Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Doctor's Dilemma is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.  

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in December 1998.

Adapted for Radio and Directed by: Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

Jane Carr as Emmy/Minnie Tinwell

Gregory Cooke as Redpenny/Newspaper Man

Kenneth Danziger as Dr. Blinkensop/Mr. Danby

Roy Dotrice as Sir Patrick Cullen

Martin Jarvis as Sir Colenso Ridgeon

Jennifer Dundas as Jennifer Dubedat

Simon Templeman as Cutler Walpole

Douglas Weston as Louis Dubedat

Paxton Whitehead as Sir Ralph Bonington

Recording and Mixing Engineers: Raymond Guarna, Ed Cerrato; Sound Effects Artist: Jon Lovick

(P)2000 L.A. Theatre Works

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