OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Tom Purefoy 

• Setting

  Jack Holland's Flat.
  The Nightingale Nursing Home
  Morning-room in Mrs. Burton's house.
  

• Synopsis

  A light satrire on the medical profession moving into the same ground furrowed by Shaw's 'A Doctor's Dilemma'. Jack Holland becomes such a hypochondriac that he winds up in a nursing home.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

• Cast Size Male

  8

• Cast Size Female

  4

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  06 July 1942

• Production Notes

  The Pictures in Act 1 by Dolly Robinson and Norah McGuinness. Surgical Equipment by Fannin & Co., Grafton Street.

• Producer

  Presented by Gaiety Theatre Ltd

• Original Venue

  Gaiety Theatre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme, with additional information from press cuttings of the time.