The Good Doctor

What happens when a humble city worker sneezes on their boss during a play? What is the perfect lunch? Is three rubles a fair price to watch someone drown? How can you teach a governess to speak up for themselves? What’s the guaranteed way to seduce a married woman?

The Good Doctor begins with a narrator, a Chekhov-like writer, who leads the audience through nine scenes that go from ridiculous to absurd to charming and back again as the narrator reflects on the creative process, popping in and out of the stories.

Chekhov wrote the original stories in the 1890s, Simon adapted them for Broadway in the 1970s, and BarnArts brings them to the Upper Valley with a team of actor/directors this March, creating an intimate black-box experience: audience and actors will be together on Woodstock’s Town Hall Theatre stage.

“A great deal of warmth and humor in his retelling of these Chekhovian tales.” – Newhouse Newspapers

“There is much fun here. Mr. Simon’s comic fancy is admirable.” – The New York Times

Act I

“The Writer”

Directed by Cliff Johnson

Starring Abigail Bower

“The Sneeze”

Directed by Olivia Piepmeier

Starring Cliff Johnson, Elyse DeNeige Robichaud, Linda Treash, & Killian White

“The Governess”

Directed by Erin Bennett

Starring Abigail Bower & Killian White

“Surgery”

Directed by Killian White

Starring Cliff Johnson & Killian White

“Too Late for Happiness”

Directed by Abigail Bower

Starring Erin Bennett & Linda Treash

“The Seduction”

Directed by Linda Treash

Starring Elyse DeNeige Robichaud, Cliff Johnson, & Olivia Piepmeier

Act II

“The Drowned Man”

Directed by Linda Treash

Starring Erin Bennett, Abigail Bower, & Olivia Piepmeier

“The Audition”

Directed by Elyse DeNeige Robichaud

Starring Erin Bennett & Abigail Bower

“A Quiet War”

Directed by Olivia Piepmeier

Starring Erin Bennett & Elyse DeNeige Robichaud

“The Arrangement”

Directed by Elyse DeNeige Robichaud

Starring Elyse DeNeige Robichaud, Olivia Piepmeier, & Linda Treash

“The Writer”

Directed by Cliff Johnson

Starring Abigail Bower

Tickets will go on sale mid-February

Tickets

$20 adults

$15 students

Location

Woodstock Town Hall Theatre

31 the Green

Woodstock, VT 05091