Under the Doctor
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23 February 2001
"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount go the longest way." So said Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon, although the sentiment might have fallen from Peter Tilbury's lips, the playwright of this slight, but undoubtedly funny, nouveau French farce.
Indeed, Tilbury's skill is to stretch the ubiquitous deception, infidelity, and art of cover-up to fill two 45-minute acts. Plotting is his strong point; dialogue is not - at least on this evidence.
Reliant on a fair measure of coarse language, and lines that are often more functional than sparkling, Tilbury's tale commences with Dr Jean-Pierre Moulineaux's Peter Davison fib about what he was doing the previous night - having illicit fun with newly married Suzanne Aubin Emma Pike - rather than tending to Marcel Bassinet Robert Swann, an angry sort who ends up being fatally caught in the bad doctor's machinations.
To every master there must be a faithful, and flexible, servant. In this c...
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USER: Whatsonstage.com - 14 March 2001:
Don't believe any of these other idiots. This is utter crap - why do you think it's closing after jst one month???? ...
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Peter Tilbury (Author)
PW Productions (Producer)
Fiona Laird (Director)
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