Playing Doctor
by William Van Zandt

Playing Doctor

Synopsis

Farce / 5m, 3f / Int. Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor.

What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career.

Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit.

Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients.

Complications ensue when Jimmy decides he is such a good actor that he can impersonate all the patients, with the help of a trunk of costumes and bad dialects!

The authors have written some zany farces but this one may just be their zaniest.

It is great fun to perform, and great fun to see.

"Wonderful... wacky comedy... will undoubtedly become standard dinner theatre fare across the country... contains more wit than is usual in sex farce."

- Asbury Park Press

Performance

Cast

A medium cast size of 8 total roles, 3 female and 5 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Samuel French
Year Published
1984
ISBN 10
0573619352
ISBN 13
9780573619359
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Acting
Print Length
110 pages
Place Published
New York
Language
English
LCCN
84212112
LCC
PS3572.A64 P5 1984
DCC
812/.54
Print
Playing Doctor is a American comedy / farce play written by and published by Samuel French in New York, 1984. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780573619359 and an ISBN-10 of 0573619352.

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