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The Hypochondriac
2018
13400137
2018
single work
drama
'An irreverent and delicious farce where the old world meets the new.
'Argan is a needy and controlling patriarch of a household of women, and his hypochondria is the perfect means to keep them at his beck and call. But when his self-obsession extends to selling off his daughter in return for on-tap medical attention, his housekeeper Toinette decides it’s time to fight back.
'In this world premiere, Hilary Bell adapts Molière’s classic satire for contemporary Australian audiences. The Hypochondriac critiques a society of overdiagnosis and over-prescription that has us clamouring for short-cut fixes and pharmaceuticals.'
Source: Malthouse Theatre.
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Le malade imaginaire is included in AustLit because of Australian-written adaptations.
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