Davison & Rodgers Play Under the Doctor, 22 Feb
Date: 16 January 2001
Peter Davison and Anton Rodgers will star in a new comedy by Peter Tilbury which arrives in the West End next month. Under the Doctor opens at the Comedy Theatre on 22 February 2001, following previews from 15 February.
The Doctor is at it. And so is his wife, Yvonne. And so is Yvonne's mum, and so is Gustave, his ex Rosa, his dad Marcel, the lovely but dim Suzanne, the pretty Hortense, the philandering Anatole and the scheming Etienne. In fact, all ten of them are at it, but only Etienne is disproving the old proverb that lying doesn't pay.
Davison, who plays the doctor, is best known as a television actor whose many series include Dr Who, All Creatures Great and Small, A Very Peculiar Practice, Jonathan Creek and At Home with the Braithwaites, in which he is currently appearing. His stage credits include The Last Yankee at the Duke of York's and, most recently, Chicago (playing Amos Hart) at the Adelphi.
Rodgers' many stage credits include How the Other Half Lives (tour), Time of My Life (Vaudeville) and Songbook (Globe and on Broadway), for which he won an Olivier award for Best Actor. Last year, he played PG Wodehouse in the touring production of Beyond a Joke, Roger Milner's controversial play about the novelist's allegedly treacherous Nazi sympathies. Rodgers has also appeared in more than twenty TV series and numerous dramas including Fresh Fields, French Fields and Noah's Ark.
Under the Doctor is directed by Fiona Laird whose credits include the National's production of Oh What a Lovely War, Guys and Dolls and Frogs. She co-directed the National's Peter Pan, for which she also wrote the lyrics. Peter Tilbury is both a writer and actor. He won a BAFTA nomination for creating and writing the BBC TV series, Chef!, starring Lenny Henry.
The acclaimed revival of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker is currently playing at the Comedy Theatre, booking up to 3 February.
- by Terri Paddock
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