The Hypochondriac

published: Sun, 1-Oct-2006   |   updated: Wed, 25-Sep-2024

Cleante and Sganarelle in The Hypochondriac by Moliere, translated by Alan Drury, for the Dulwich Players at St. Barnabas Hall, Dulwich Village. Directed by Ruth Franklin. January 1992.

I really can't remember much about this production fifteen years later, apart from the play within a play in the middle, where I got to sing a love ballad to my love on a balcony. My love was Jenny Gammon, to whom I found it very easy to sing a love ballad, and I got some thunderous applause after it, to boot, despite the fact I hate singing and really can't do it very well.

I do seem to remember we played it all very over the top, melodramatic, going for the laughs. Looking at the photo now, I wonder how the curls over my forehead were stuck down. But a great costume, I must say.

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