The Doctor's Dilemma

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: full cast

The blowhards, the know-it-alls, the scrupulous and the impecunious are all targets for Shaw's incisive wit in his classic satire of the medical profession. A well-respected physician is forced to choose whom he shall save: a bumbling friend or the ne'er-do-well husband of the woman he loves.

Includes a conversation with Dr. Neil Wenger, the Director of the Healthcare Ethics Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Doctor's Dilemma is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in December 1998.

Adapted for Radio and Directed by: Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

Jane Carr as Emmy/Minnie Tinwell

Gregory Cooke as Redpenny/Newspaper Man

Kenneth Danziger as Dr. Blinkensop/Mr. Danby

Roy Dotrice as Sir Patrick Cullen

Martin Jarvis as Sir Colenso Ridgeon

Jennifer Dundas as Jennifer Dubedat

Simon Templeman as Cutler Walpole

Douglas Weston as Louis Dubedat

Paxton Whitehead as Sir Ralph Bonington

Recording and Mixing Engineers: Raymond Guarna, Ed Cerrato; Sound Effects Artist: Jon Lovick

(P)2000 L.A. Theatre Works

A great book

A wonderful book that I found to be developmental and maturative for a young man coming of age such as myself. I found this book relatable and really well written. I further highly recommend this book.

Quality Piece

Well written and well performed. If you appreciate irony and subtle humor, this is top shelf.

It made me stretch

As GB Shaw usually does, he has a point to bring to our notice. This play has several. Many of them are very difficult to parse easily. There was so much presented that I found I couldn’t listen to his arguments and also think about them. Hearing this play helped me to gather some insight s of mine that I might not have gotten if I had read it. I do have a copy I haven’t yet read, but I definitely will now. This will work at allowing me to stop and take the time to decide what I do think and feel about what was presented. In listening, things came at me so fast and furiously that I didn’t have time to follow my ideas further. I would just start and then something new would catch me. I never got to go through all the ramifications of one when I was sent after another. When I’ll read it, I’ll be able to take a breather to investigate. That doesn’t mean that the next thing will make me rethink my opinions. Hearing it added some extra flavor to how my ideas went, something the play deals with.
Enjoy, the cast does a great job and it’s much fun to use your brain!!