Le Médecin volant

About the show

Valère loves Lucile, but her father Gorgibus intends to marry her to the elderly Villebrequin. Valère’s valet Sganarelle helps the lovers by impersonating his own twin brother, a doctor, while Lucile’s cousin Sabine helps the deception along. The comic scheme builds on the commedia dell’arte trick of a false doctor rapidly moving between two roles.