Marriage, Medicine, Money, and Mayhem:

French Farces by Molière and Feydeau

Directed and Translated by Jim Carmody

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@ The Arthur Wagner Theatre
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February 24 - February 27

About the Play

About the Playwright

Molière, Doctor For A Day
(Le médecin malgré lui, 1666).

A wine-guzzling, wife-beating firewood gatherer spends a terrifying day as a celebrity doctor performing a miracle cure.

Feydeau, Baby Can’t Go Potty
(On purge bébé, 1910).

An entrepreneur with new technology for manufacturing indestructible chamber pots desperately negotiates a government contract as his constipated son and contentious wife make a few changes around the house.

About the Director

JIM CARMODY (PhD, Stanford University) studied at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Paris before coming to the United States to study at Stanford. He graduated from Stanford with a PhD in Drama in 1986. He is the author of Rereading Molière and numerous articles, principally dealing with classical and contemporary French drama. Much of his work deals with the history of mise en scène and problems of translation. He serves on the Editorial Board of Le Nouveau Moliériste and was a member of the inaugural Artistic Committee of Etant Donnés: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts. He was one of the founding editors of TheatreForum, and continues to serve as one of its editors. As chair of the department in the early 1990s, he was responsible for designing the UCSD/UCI Joint Doctoral Program in Theatre and Drama, in collaboration with UCI faculty members Stephen Barker and David McDonald, and he became the founding head of the program at UCSD. In addition to his scholarly work, he has directed over 50 productions and translated several plays, including plays by Molière and Marivaux. He is currently working on a number of projects related to the staging of Molière's plays in the United States.

The Cast

The Creative Team

Performances

Parking&Location

Located at: The Arthur Wagner Theatre

Open Seating -- No Reserved Seating

Parking Passes Required: Monday through Friday. Weeknight passes are $2 per vehicle from the vending machines located in the UC San Diego Theatre District/La Jolla Playhouse parking lots and entry display case. Please remember your parking space number. You will need it to purchase your parking pass.

Note: Machines take all major credit cards except Discover and when paying with cash you must use exact change, NO CHANGE GIVEN.

Parking Passes Not Required: Saturdays and Sundays

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Cars without permits are subject to ticketing by UCSD Campus Police. The Theatre & Dance Department does not have the authority to waive and cannot pay parking tickets.

Tickets

Advance tickets for this production are available Monday-Friday, noon to 6 pm by calling the Box Office at 858.534.4574 or in person at the Theatre District’s Central Box Office at the Sheila & Hughes Potiker Theatre. 

At-the-Door tickets, if available, can be purchased one hour before show time at the performing theatre’s box office at the The Arthur Wagner Theatre (Galbraith Hall). 

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