Doctor's Dilemma
DOCTOR’S DILEMMA: Post your review
Posted by DCA Theater on April 17, 2010 in January-June 2010 Season, Doctor's Dilemma
April 17 - May 10
Studio Theater
ShawChicago returns to the Studio Theater with a staged reading of Bernard Shaw’s tale of Doctor Colenso Ridgeon. The newly knighted doctor has discovered a cure for tuberculosis but has only one slot left for the clinical trial. Should he choose a kindly medical colleague who ministers to the poor or a callous, amoral, but potentially great artist? And will his love for the artist’s wife interfere with his decision? A fascinating tug-of-war between art and science…and love, as only Shaw could tell it.
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DOCTOR’S DILEMMA production history
Posted by DCA Theater on April 16, 2010 in January-June 2010 Season, Doctor's Dilemma
This is the second production of The Doctor’s Dilemma at ShawChicago. The first was in 1994 during the Clinton administration’s fight for health care, and launched ShawChicago as a program of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The current debate about the same topic seemed a good reason to take a second look at this remarkable play.
The Doctor’s Dilemma had its world premiere at the Royal Court Theater in London, opening on November 20, 1906. It starred Lillah McCarthy as Jennifer and Harley Granville Barker as Louis Dubedat. The play was revived at London’s Haymarket Theater in 1942 in a production that starred Vivien Leigh and Cyril Cusack. That production ran for 474 performances. It was the second longest run ever for a Bernard Shaw play (exceeded only by the premiere production of his Fanny’s First Play in 1911). The first American production of The Doctor’s Dilemma was in New York in 1915. It again starred Lillah McCarthy and Harley Granville Barker. Other New York productions featured Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (1927), Katherine Cornell and Raymond Massey (1941), and Roddy McDowell and Geraldine Fitzgerald (1955).
The first Canadian production was in Toronto in 1923 at the Princess Theater by the Cameron Matthews Players. The Shaw Festival has produced the play three times in the past and will include it in the 2010 season.
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