Argan's Excellent Adventures.(Imago Theatre)
American Theatre, January, 2001 by Johnson, Barry
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Imago Theatre, steeped in commedia, takes Moliere's invalid to new heights
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An impishly animated elevator provided the quintessential Imago touch in the Portland, Ore., company's recent production of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid. Ostensibly connecting the penthouse apartment of the rich hypochondriac Argan to the rest of the world, the elevator turned out to have a life of its own--a way of crushing irritating characters in its door, for example, or of producing visitors almost miraculously, as though it were the transporter room on the Starship Enterprise. Its behavior, in ...
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