The Doctor’s Dilemma 93-94

With The Doctor’s Dilemma, Shaw brings all his critical, dramatic and comic powers to bear on the evils of a materialistic, self-serving society. One of Shaw’s funniest works, The Doctor’s Dilemma concerns a specialist, Dr. Ridgeon, who has been knighted for finding a cure for tuberculosis. Unfortunately, the cure works only if Ridgeon himself administers it. In the course of the play, the doctor is forced to choose between saving the life of the talented but amoral artist Dubedat and a medical colleague who cares for the poor. The artist’s beautiful wife Jennifer figures in the decision as Ridgeon weighs the odds and determines whose life to save and how he can benefit from the outcome.

“Shaw is very sophisticated in his comedy, very witty in his perceptions, and then he brings that wit to these very important, topical issues and uses it to keep them from getting too dark. In The Doctor’s Dilemma, the doctors are making decisions about life and death but they do it in a way that never becomes heavy, and with a style of comedy that never becomes lowbrow.”
–Emery Battis (Sir Patrick Cullen) in An American Classic: Shakespeare Theatre Company

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Todd Breaugh
Redpenny

Franchelle Stewart Dorn
Emmy

Brian Murray
Sir Colenso Ridgeon

Eric Hoffmann
Dr. Leo Schurtzmacher

Emery Battis
Sir Patrick Cullen

Floyd King
Cutler Walpole

Ted van Griethuysen
Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington

Philip Goodwin
Dr. Blenkinsop

Haviland Morris
Jennifer Dubedat

Derek Smith
Louis Dubedat

Lisa Dove
Minnie Tinwell

Todd Breaugh
A Waiter / The Newspaper Man / Mr. Danby

Quinn Hanchette, Jeremy Jacobs, Michael Martines, Wendy Wilde
Ensemble
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Michael Kahn
Director

Derek McLane
Set Designer

Catherine Zuber
Costume Designer

Howell Binkley
Lighting Designer

Liz Smith
Vocal Consultant

David Maddox
Sound Designer

John W. Kingsbury
Stage Manager

Randy Engels
Production Manager

Stuart Howard and Amy Schecter
Casting
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