If you need a good laugh, don't miss Creede Repertory Theatre's new production of The Imaginary Invalid - opening July 24th on CRT's Mainstage. This hilarious play by the ultimate master of farce follows a miserly hypochondriac, whose imaginary illnesses (and very real wealth) attract the quackiest of doctors. But when he promises his daughter's hand to the dim-witted son of the calculating Dr. Diaforious, it's a prescription for outlandish trickery and silliness as his family scrambles to break the perpetual patient from his dependence on doctors.
The director and translator of this production is Nagle Jackson, an award-winning playwright and director whose career began at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the 1960's and was followed by his position as Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and of the McCarter Theatre in Princeton. His play, The Elevation of Thieves, won the $150,000 prize in the Onassis International Playwriting Competition, presented to him by the President of Greece in Athens. Mr. Jackson was also the first American Director invited to work in the Soviet Union, staging The Glass Menagerie at the Bolshoi Dramatichny Teatre in (then) Leningrad in 1988.
The Imaginary Invalid plays at The Creede Repertory Theatre from July 24th until August 28th. You don't want to miss this entertaining evening of comedy and culture!
For more information or to reserve your seats, please call our box office at 719-658-2540 or visit www.creederep.org.
Photo: Director Nagle Jackson
