Theatre Royal
Dr. Knock
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Theatre Royal presents radio dramatizations of stage plays, bringing theatrical stories and performances to listeners through the intimacy of radio. The title “Dr. Knock” identifies this recording with Jules Romains’s celebrated comedy about a doctor who persuades a community that healthy people are merely patients whose illnesses have yet to be discovered.
Rather than relying on visual staging, the radio adaptation uses dialogue, vocal performance, and sound to convey the play’s characters and comic situations. Its central figure is Knock, whose confident manner and persuasive medical theories transform everyday encounters into a sly examination of authority, anxiety, and the business of being ill.
The result is a theatrical comedy with a satirical edge: polished in its dramatic presentation, but playful in its view of human nature. It offers the pleasure of a complete stage work shaped for listening, with the humor carried by the characters’ exchanges and the unfolding absurdity of Knock’s influence.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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