The Imaginary Invalid

Cast:

Argan: Stuart Landon
Toinette: Sadie truax
Beline: Kelly Kasper
Angelique: Lauren McDonald
Cleante: Alex Garza
Beryl: Rachel Landon
Lucille: Katy Hooper
Louise: Agnes Sekowski
Elise: Natalia Sinatora
Doctor Diaforus: Robbie McDonough
Thomas Diaforus: Jeff Taylor
Doctor Purgon: Breandan Jennings ("BJ")
Bonnefoi: Adam Rutledge
Fleurant: Allen Jenkins
Julien: Kevin Green
Alternates: Shannon Smith, John Lemke, Kate Sumrow

Crew:

1st Stage Mgr: Jenny Stone
2nd Stage Mgr: Lindsay Tilkemeier
Light Op: Keith Cochran
Sound Op: James McAuley
Running and Production Crew: Allison Organ, Elizabeth Berlinger, Sarah Short, Jenna Bloxam, Jennifer Martin, Kathy Hallmark, Kelly Dickey, Jessie Douglas, Kristin LaRocca, Joey Stallings, Nicole Ramos, Chris Eden, Tom Schmidt, Melissa Blassingame, Audrey Kerdahi, Carol Kemen.

Directed by Marilyn Miller, Peter Dias, and Troy D. Menn.

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As the second UIL One-Act of my high school career (as well as my last), Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid was everything I could have hoped for. At first, I was lukewarm toward the show, having been forced to read Tartuffe in senior English, but I warmed up to it after reading the script. Cast as the lecherous lawyer Bonnefoi, I felt a bit out of my depth, and I'm sure my castmates will agree that, to some extent at least, I was. Eventually, though, I pulled the character together, learned my lines (always a problem!), and managed to put together a fairly funny scene.

Like The Elephant Man, Invalid was a chance to bring the members of the cast and crew together. There were the Guys' Nights, and the Infamous Taco Competition (whooo BJ! T.E.C. all the way!), not to mention House of Pies, and the Girls and their driveway chalk...not to mention lots of memorable backstage moments that we won't get into. Frisbee, of course, is a beautiful thing (even if Menn tried to stop us!).

Invalid went to Area competition before falling to the whim of a judge; a bittersweet, though not bitter, end to a rather peculiar era.

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