An ETT / Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse joint production

Argan, played by multi-talented Clive Francis (starred in and directed Three Men in a Boat, as well as adapting the recent stage production of Hound of the Baskervilles), is a perfectly healthy and wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings-on in his own household.
 
However, his most effective cure will not appear in a bottle or a bedpan, but in his sharp-tongued servant, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master’s eyes.

Following last year’s critically acclaimed Tartuffe, Liverpool’s Poet Laureate, Roger McGough, dips his magic quill again to adapt another classic Molière comedy. The Hypochondriac was Molière’s last play and a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the ‘quack’ medical profession.

Un tour de farce.

ETT presents potent, vivid and vital productions of new and classic plays. A powerhouse of touring theatre, ETT works with a rich mix of the country’s leading and emerging artists to stage thrilling and ambitious theatre.

Written by one of Britain’s favourite play-writing teams of the Sixties, Hugh and Margaret Williams, The Grass Is Greener proved to be a huge hit in London’s West End and went on to be adapted into an award-winning movie starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.

Heading the cast is Liza Goddard (Bergerac, Take Three Women, Yes, Honestly, Take Three Girls, The Brothers, Dr Who, Midsomer Murders). Liza is joined by Christopher Cazenove (The Regiment, The Duchess Of Duke Street, Dynasty, Judge John Deed). Jack Ellis (Bad Girls and Coronation Street) and Sophie Ward (Holby City and Heartbeat) complete the all-star cast.

When an impoverished English Earl opens his stately home to the public, he risks more than the loss of his privacy, as his wife falls madly in love with an irresistible American millionaire. In a desperate attempt to save his marriage, the Earl decides to host a house-party, enlisting the help of an old flame, with dangerous and hilarious consequences! Throw in a wily old butler, and you have one of the funniest, classic feel-good comedies of the era.