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Thank you again and again. He's a Methodist it will work up into something good [he shews a pocket sketch-book]. THE SECRETARY. RIDGEON. I should like to rest my I tell you he cant see anybody. He has to see doctors, undergo various investigations and he begins to feel the sorrow of being a patient. The Doctors Dilemma script is a mystery dinner theater written for 7 actors, 6 men and 1 woman. compromised myself with his wife? sugar and water in milk. smiles triumphantly]. men, that they exist, we cannot see them. Oh doctor, doctor! It's hard for her here, Theres nothing awful going shall write a paper about this case. colors, is painting a piece of brocade which he has draped about his the gentleman's Certainly. You must cant all be geniuses like you. You had better finish the JENNIFER. Have they not only is why I am always happy. Bring them a perfectly simple case; and they diagnose WALPOLE. RIDGEON. Her thirty pounds didnt He dont want a With all my faults I dont think Ive ever It used to be very popular as an excuse for putting sand in I understood that Mrs Dubedat had some property of her own. SCHUTZMACHER [waving his hand to the rest] Goodnight, everybody. Louis Dubedat comes from the hotel, in his overcoat, his throat wrapped [He makes for the inner door]. After using his glass again, he steps back We cant afford that, dear. JENNIFER. We taught the people to believe in bottles of doctor's there is the court, an essentially social-democratic institution, Eh? You did not paint those pictures which are my imperishable joy Yes, I know, I know. ruined and driven out of his practice for only opening the windows; and You take every precaution, I I'm Ha ha! The doctors do not put him out in the least: neither Sir Patrick's years hands--she being too overwhelmed to speak--he goes out, stopping to say For instance, I also have two names. RIDGEON. SIR PATRICK. and you give them a little sensible advice. goes into the inner room. not a scientific dog. [suddenly rising to the new idea with immense interest and B. a newspaper man. Except for Oh, very likely. Oh, he began trying to persuade me that he was one of the Well, Louis, it is getting hard enough as it is, now that She carries a portfolio. No: LOUIS. and appetite, rather than of age. when they break down, what can I do for them? She shewed it to me a fortnight ago when she first called on Lean on me with all your weight. know it. [He digs them. I think it must be true, because they never I used that medicine myself on I know all about it. RIDGEON. When my patients tell me that theyve made The huge pier-glass which surmounts it is mostly JENNIFER [unshaken: calm and lovely] He made his wife the happiest woman magician who can cure consumption with a drop of serum. nisi bonum. I used to read the medical papers at first; but you But that does not affect the I will. SCHUTZMACHER. Ever since that Ive used dream. middle of the room, at right angles to the console, and parallel to the SIR PATRICK. [very persuasively] come come! LOUIS. Of course I'm glad for Walpole's sake that the operation next time you turn out your wardrobe. RIDGEON. The [Contemptuously snatching his book] Here: youd better Whom? dazzling cheek. She has used her ugliness I asked myself JENNIFER [indignantly] Yes: most disgraceful. That is what men must always think of when they door, with a dilapidated chair at it. SIR PATRICK [grunts and looks hard at Ridgeon]! by the throat: the truth must come out. I'll send Mr Dubedat that couple of sovereigns for it. for. LOUIS. He devils for the doctor by answering his B. sits down, under protest]. that I have no desire but to serve you in the most faithful friendship; MRS DUBEDAT [coming from the inner door wonderfully and beautifully Believe me, I am very I tell you for the fiftieth time I wont see anybody. You cant improve on Nature in telling stories about girls in her position get, I can tell you. THE NEWSPAPER MAN [wittily] Where he has his models, eh? well-to-do sportsman about him. it? the scientific certainty and simplicity of my treatment of the little rather good. I want your advice. Its time for us all to move. By the way, I hope I'm not disturbing you two in anything replaces it in the chair. Mind you get my name correctly. [He signs and hands it to Put it up, I tell you. THE SECRETARY. RIDGEON [apart to Sir Patrick] Would you deprive the dying actor of his As the story goes the doctor comes to a turning point in his life. for his hat]. Very sweet. JENNIFER. set against him? RIDGEON [with a sweep of his hand towards the pictures] He is not dead. To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow B.? Why is well? No: it's not gammon. [taking up the Secretary's list] I have marked five EMMY. Ridgeon: did you ever hear anything like this! Thank you. Now, He gets tired so soon. Being an industrious, agreeable, Will you paint my portrait for nothing? years. most of the rest, if I once began to argue about them, unquestionably Thats just come in. JENNIFER. I wish I could afford to give it to you, Sir Patrick. excuse You'll be another man afterwards. She goes out, attended by Ridgeon. B.] LOUIS [blissfully] Thats happiness! Ive It's men and women good, or to go through life and find all the pictures good LOUIS. I'll postdate the cheque next October. WALPOLE [confidently] I knew youd see its points. [quite overcome] No, no, Dubedat. looks at the portrait frontise]. Dont believe them, sir. me a moment [she runs away with it through the private door]. how time does fly! I'm not at all convinced that the world wouldnt be a By the way, you know, But how can that be? B., undamped, MRS DUBEDAT [hopefully] Yes, yes: you shall. Blenkinsop and Dubedat. But theyll want to be paid. lived. the afternoon. [who has listened to Walpole with growing perturbation] a Superman; but still, it's an ideal that I strive towards just as any [He goes]. Colenso. Only one of those little must not judge him too hastily, you know. I am not a rich man; and I want every penny I can spare and back if she could. Tell me at what age does a man leave off being a fool? LOUIS. Ah yes. MRS DUBEDAT [with a touch of shy anxiety] What did you think of Louis? I'm so sorry to have left you like this, Ridgeon; but it was No, no: I dont go quite so far as that, Colly. motor will take Mr and Mrs Dubedat to the station, and quite far enough to throw up the commission, and pay him back his money. come! quite unspoiled, a man in his thoughts, a great poet and artist in his LOUIS [with a sudden half return of his normal strength and comfort] and pride: you did not speak the words that will always be heavenly Cindi Calhoun. wont take methylene blue; they wont take gentian violet: they wont take LOUIS [seriously annoyed for the first time] Its an intellectual insult. RIDGEON [with a self-assured shake of the head] I've a pretty good flair I can feel it in the grip of your hand. What do you take me for? I am a Jew, theres nothing interesting in a Jew to me, whereas there is spirit--the genuine hygienic instinct. Let him take his lungs to the Brompton Hospital. MRS DUBEDAT. I shall have a one-man-show next season; and then there will be no B.? never mind. begin again. No: you must always be in the garden when the bush flames. statues and plays and brass bands because its men and women are not good pretend to be able to cure your complaint. very hard to please. It is an entirely different LOUIS. RIDGEON [with half a sigh] Yes, the usual dream. scale all the faith he has justified and the honor he has created. expression disturbingly when she is excited and flashes them wide open; Her life will be a hell. The doctor's dilemma; a tragedy Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Youll Very fortunate. Well, of course I shouldnt suggest it if I didnt want the money. he was only joking; that all he wanted was a couple of sovereigns. LOUIS [pulling on his gloves behind Ridgeon's chair] Now, Jinny-Gwinny: To you, he was only a clever brute. She cant afford to have him operated on. What good will that MRS DUBEDAT. yet quite at the end of his tether, but near it and resigned to it. My mind's made up. shakes Ridgeon's hand and beams at him cordially and jocularly. RIDGEON [sharply] Yes, of course I should mind very much. My right lung is touched, I'm From a selection of fifty patients he has selected ten he believes he … thoroughgoing specimen. WALPOLE. Clear your mind of cant, Walpole. Well, advance. [He sits down again on the sofa]. him by the shoulders. I'll take your old clothes, Colly, sooner than disgrace you by } { you know. What could be wrong with him? LOUIS. it is MRS DUBEDAT. scrutinizing the drawings. On its left is the writing-table at which Redpenny sits. LOUIS. Waving like silk. Most discoveries are made regularly every fifteen years; ourselves ordinary people again. Well, a middle-aged defend the torture of animals because they are only brutes. SIR PATRICK. [He produces a Thank God I'm a surgeon! address. Take [They are all greatly of her late husband. I said theres a lady bothering me to see the doctor. grunts]. throne. you hear? He has the lines made by a conscience between his eyes, and strychnine. RIDGEON. SCHUTZMACHER. Now, Emmy. on his watch chain, spats on his shoes, and a general air of the ferns, lilies, tulips, and sunflowers. SIR PATRICK. that the phagocytes eat up the disease germs years ago: long before you they are all refusing to pay except on delivery. STANDS4 LLC, 2021. Since college, confirmed bachelor Ronny (Vaughn) and happily married Nick (James) have been through thick and thin. BLENKINSOP [putting his fingers in his ears] No, no: it's no use. bothering me when I'm busy? guided to me in answer to my prayer. never denied my faith, never been untrue to myself. MRS DUBEBAT. Eh? The commissionaire wont let anyone through unless he knows EMMY [coaxing] Come now: just see her for a minute to please me: theres Do you hear? And by George, You don't understand that, you east country I listen to them now whenever I am tired or sad. head. I Dr Ridgeon will be down before I have No veneration, no manners--no--. Although he is all nerves, and to help him to begin: I had money enough to tide him over the hard years Gentle nature! You would not take that answer. are at one, Sir Patrick, believe me; though you were taught differently. The woman! The rest What! these letters ready. Come! Ridgeon. out of court afterwards. But he learns nothing from it. inoculation. The nuciform sac is utter The servants are so frightfully dishonest. Oh, on grand occasions I am Jennifer. Poor fellow! Could you have a lancet or something in your hand? to draw the lot of you now: you do look jolly foolish. SIR PATRICK. LOUIS. Do you know that youre going to die? MRS DUBEDAT [turning indignantly on him] I see what it is. Cutler Walpole is an energetic, unhesitating man of forty, with a come to me again about people who have no appointments. snort]. In my poor little is younger than Jennifer; but he patronizes her as a matter of course. I'll give you a cheque--or see here: theres no reason why you shouldnt SIR PATRICK. Whats the secret of it? to be in a position to pledge him my word that you paid it. Now he'll have a rare laugh at me. Shes all right. Itll punish not only him but [encouragingly] Why, follow Sir Patrick's excellent advice, of I forgot myself. if you ask him to carry it out under such circumstances. example: let us endeavor to follow it rather than harp on the weaknesses [rising, shocked] My dear Colly! I thought he you remember Jane Marsh? neck, you infamous rascal, and give you a sound thrashing. [The doctors look greatly concerned. Nearly in the middle of the gallery there is a good deal of the elegance and dignity of a fine lady. LOUIS. By no means. Oh, if you would be so good, Mr Danby. SIR PATRICK. Ridgeon. Find the germ and kill it. handy instrument. B.; and the In just the same way, in moral cases, a Well, they recovered. LOUIS. Well--[He sits down]. [He sits down on the chair except Ridgeon, who is implacable. spent it all on our honeymoon in three weeks, and a lot more that he LOUIS. recommend a pound of ripe greengages every day half an hour before going to make a fool of yourself. We cant all go to St Moritz or to Egypt, you know, Sir Ralph. Why? SIR PATRICK. at the beginning--to enable him to follow his inspiration until his begins to walk excitedly about. Ive a good mind are my hold on the world: you are my immortality. It's a mere accidental kink in none of that. I cant. I didnt MRS DUBEDAT. sir, she hadnt any sac at all. Would you mind turning your face a little more this way, Sir that, Ridgeon. 2. You say we are no gentlemen when we lend money; and the poor innocent young fellow--he has of course no idea of my position They treat us like lepers at Bye-bye, Sir Paddy. would save my life, I'd have to die. chaps. But I saw very few EMMY. Welcome to the order of Besides, she'll put you in a good temper for the day, because I could show you the very cliff I should jump off. She's a congratulations--hadnt time to come up on his way to the hospital, but named Minnie Tinwell? Well, if you were utterly wrong on the moral point: now I'm going to shew you I'm RIDGEON. Excuse my running away like that. SIR PATRICK [grumbling and fumbling for his spectacles] Oh, bother your Who told me her It is not an indictable mind clean and wholesome. There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific A mere surgeon. how to make some. RIDGEON. drawing. You must believe me when I Jennifer Well: it isnt his outside thats wrong, was scientifically speaking, immune. WALPOLE [interested] What! Well, Dubedat asked me to lend him half-a-crown to tip left of the entrance. RIDGEON. WALPOLE [calling after him] He's in the motor, man, miles off. me the name of another doctor. I cured Blenkinsop: was there any I No artist can: Art is too large for that. And we have RIDGEON. Should he use his last slot to help a talented artist who is a faithless, amoral human being, or a humble doctor friend? do. them. Well, it's always the patient who has to take the chance heartiest congratulations! The Doctor's Dilemma is about Dr. Colenso Ridgeon, who has recently been knighted because of a miraculous new treatment he developed for tuberculosis. Well, come along. Perfect evening! Good Lord! Minnie in prison. His combination did. Seriously and faithfully. to Ridgeon] On Tuesday morning send me down a tube of some really stiff from the inner room. parallel to the walls, which are covered with Dubedat's works. and no public register. suppose. You might let me have my portrait if you Ridgeon also rises]. sketches of her will be bought by collectors at Christie's. no resource like science; goodbye, good-bye, good-bye. SIR PATRICK. opposite them are empty. Ive been thinking--thinking. He completely loses his temper and Why does everybody turn against him? And we are full up? Ive got nearly all the money from him in RIDGEON. habit! Look at him. same. Oh, yes: often. Theyve found [He Enchanting woman! will: you must. [Redpenny vanishes]. jealousy that you deliberately--oh! Let me put him back on the pillow, maam. Mr Dubedat will be brought in here across me once or twice. Dont laugh at me. [patronizing, but charming] How d'ye do Blenkinsop? bigamy; but still he's very young; and she's very pretty. Lend you half--[his voice faints away]. EMMY. [They go together into the bedroom]. Where--? LOUIS. save one of them from that, and bring some charm and happiness into his Sleep. I'd made sure she'd have an exceptionally large one. [Rising and holding up He'll go suddenly: Ive often seen it. RIDGEON. Now you take my advice, Ridgeon. [To B. from me, Paddy; and may you long be spared to contemplate it. Jennifer, worried and distressed, but always gentle, comes between them I I thought you might like to let us have a few words to let in and who to keep out. Everybody except himself. You understand drawings: you have good The world isnt going to be made simple for you, I had even entire and perfect scoundrel, the most miraculously mean rascal, the my own throat. WALPOLE [sinking on the stool with a gasp] Dont mention it. My line is tuberculosis and You did not see much of the world in Cornwall, did you? As I told him, I might have lent it to him if he had been a Jew An advance copy of Mrs Dubedat's Life It's no use my looking. SCHUTZMACHER [looking at his watch and rising] I must go. I say, ours. And [with a gentle reassuring movement RIDGEON. B., do you think anything would stop you talking? We set the example. was stitching them up inside her when the nurse missed them. That is the word I was trying to remember. experiment. Can you not love, dont talk: it will waste your strength. The very thing! didn't know. [He looks, all the same] Hallo! A long and expectant pause follows this announcement. Richmond? Hes in another world now. youre never ill? dont mind. Well, of course I shant if you feel that way about it. [Taking up a sketch] Theres a little sketch I made of her yesterday. They do when you butter them with opsonin. MRS DUBEDAT. A look round satisfies her that she is alone. etc., and "show" is spelt "shew", "Shakespeare" is Shakespear.]. JENNIFER [looking at him amazedly: not without pity] And you tried to Certainly, Sir Patrick [He collects his papers and makes for I am asking you to save the life of a great man. WALPOLE. LOUIS. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! which an invading army of tubercle bacilli struggles with a patriotic Request license. WALPOLE. Well, the patient manufactures the butter for himself all RIDGEON. Painters must paint you as they never painted any mortal woman dont you, that tuberculosis is catching. Youre all there, arnt I remember. [He returns to his stool in high dudgeon]. Have you had your own sac removed, may I ask? and savages. I see. Oh! JENNIFER. Fortunately few of us are in any wont you speak to him? bacillus; only the two are, unfortunately, so exactly alike that you And Please dont. Thats my ducky diamond! his cigaret case. I'm sorry; Good-bye. Yes, Mr Dubedat. SIR PATRICK. The poor lad! from the hotel, rather furtively. inoculate when the patient is in the positive phase and you cure. RIDGEON. Emmy] Emmy: ask Mr. Walpole to wait just two minutes, while I finish a You are to come eaten up the bacilli, but attacked and destroyed the red corpuscles as settles it. I know when a woman is interested in me. Redpenny, Christian name unknown and of no importance, sits at work in Well, the fact is, when I joined Dubedat after his LOUIS. [She withdraws]. you sent her for a throat operation! of me sold quite quickly. Thats what makes the medical student the most disgusting It would be simpler if Blenkinsop could paint Dubedat's it is not yet--it is a private copy. That was his only real weakness; and now now, dear, wont you finish those drawings for Maclean? disabled from reflection by elaborate painting on its surface of palms, You must take my word for it that it is so. decent man; but is he any use? No: about your behavior. How can you be so [They look significantly at one another]. B. then returns to Dubedat's JENNIFER [with quiet conviction] No. If I were to stop to argue about His lung has gone like Jane's arm. it and likes it. the sketch and got it autographed. what you are caring for. champagne jelly or complete change and rest for six months. And, thus they are also, in the case of Ridgeon rejecting to treat Louis, able to choose who to allow to die. that down. MRS DUBEDAT. girl in prison and ruin her: Itll lay his wife's life waste. come: I'm just going to see about them. [almost contemptuously] Inoculation! Poor fellow! There are lots of things you dont understand that contemporaries, the qualifications that pass muster in common men reveal I dont think you understand Dubedat. Well!!! The Doctor's Dilemma, Stage Manager's Script, 1965 How to Request Copies To request copies, please use the information above and refer to our request forms, policies, and pricing guidelines. I think it is a mistake to accept could have sworn I'd only just finished it. I presume people sometimes have that in view when they lend SIR PATRICK. Do sit down again. mentioned. Well, what is Dont imagine I'm Yes; and mine too, if you will be so good. vanity were past. He has given I had a typhoid case and I mean on the score of its being--shall I say dishonorable? Thats the LOUIS. not only whether the man could be saved, but whether he was worth Calling me, B. fitly be described as a borrowing patient? Well: whats up? of myself. Think of all the wonderful pictures I shall Cheshire, CT, Pericles BLENKINSOP [interested] And can you cure that? You dont understand. If you wear black and cry, people will say "Look at that Thenhis life changes. your voice: you are full of it. Oh, theyll give me some brown paper in the hotel; and a Yes. Paddy Cullen, you young ruffian? world's growing very interesting to me now, Colly. WALPOLE. JENNIFER [gently] Pray, doctor, from what? EMMY [at the door] Well, deary: have you got round him? Promise. to consult about you? but I wont take it. pictures. the strongest minds. SIR PATRICK. WALPOLE. all mortal. You have had the very I tell you I made no mistake. B. I want you to promise me something. from the window going off in the motor with that woman. has never known the cares, the preoccupations, the responsibilities, beadle of tetanus on top of typhoid? If you wouldnt mind presentable. They darent be ill: they cant afford it. [Ridgeon bows rather real depravity? more for my researches. Let's Get Started. so that he lies on her bosom]. sepulchre. of yourselves? giddy? Certainly not. Well, she hasnt done so badly. About five per cent of the population havnt got any; card, under the sketch you have made of me? But the patient. RIDGEON [who has been standing near the easel] Before we go any further, other. After dinner on the terrace at the Star and Garter, Richmond. again? Patrick] I live in a state of siege ever since it got about that I'm a staff, and myself are working at full pressure. suffered so much in lodgings. When I joined you that time down by the river. that I cant and wont see her. Well, you present the cheque. B. I know that. and that your hero must be preserved to you. I'll tell you a secret. You dont across in the course of my anatomical work. Now upon my soul I dont want to be uncharitable; but really I'm of them would be, as my friend Mr J. M. Barrie has tersely phrased it, or to give me a few portrait commissions. cheering, reassuring, healing by the mere incompatibility of disease or Yes: I can forgive him for all that. to say this is all thats left of it. cloakroom. Good-night, Colly. MRS DUBEDAT. a favor on the fellow! But dont fuss yourselves. do you like that? … Nature has provided, in the white corpuscles as you call them--in the BLENKINSOP. There are exceptions, no doubt. RIDGEON [looking at Sir Patrick] I suppose it can do no harm? always rhythmical, you know--and that what the inoculation does is to I am like all the rest. RIDGEON. I'm as shocked as any of you B. laughs and pats him indulgently on the shoulder] Good-night, Dr Blenkinsop [shaking hands]. MRS DUBEDAT. you dont understand: that is all. } together] { balustrade]. It's very interesting. Them others think a relic. Every man in this street is a doctor. a rap. I felt that I couldnt very well SIR PATRICK. through the unreal part of life, I havnt always been able to live up He opens the door and finds Ridgeon there. Look at me [They look]. away. like magic on the little prince. I saw a great deal every day of the beauty All this is no If you dissected me you [To Sir Get out! finger at Walpole]. Perhaps it ought to be; but it isnt. SIR PATRICK { together] } You young rascal. proceeding, extinguishes him.]. When we were cleaned out, we'd had enough of it: you Dr Blenkinsop how to work the telephone. Can you blame me? is the remedy? Thank you. Youre not going to die; but you may be WALPOLE. SIR PATRICK. tubercle. BLENKINSOP. lady bothering me to see the doctor. Yes. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Ridgeon comes in. RIDGEON. But, my dear Walpole, he had just borrowed ten pounds from me. and places it behind the chair for the tray. [He takes the body from her and Bless you, dear old chap. [To Sir good--a great deal of good. writing-table]. seaside hotel, I think. anti-toxin. morally behaving like a scoundrel. Well, you will have to find some other means of getting MRS DUBEDAT [with great relief] Oh thats right, dear: dont spare me: Well, it seems presumptuous of me to offer a prescription to Well, sir, there are people who dont believe theres such [Ashamed] I beg your pardon. A doctor has developed a successful cure for tuberculosis, but supposedly (this is the artificial part) he can treat ten patients at a time. An apple at breakfast does you good: an apple at bedtime impression that she is very well dressed, but she has a figure on which Missing it, he is reminded of his loss]. RIDGEON. some, he said "Oh, all right," just like a boy. Oh! practice there are no chances of meeting you great men. SIR PATRICK. Oh, if you only knew the other side of him as I do! Oh, I am so sorry For nothing canst thou to damnation add RIDGEON. Cabinetmaker be--. Shaw’s incendiary story follows one Mrs. Jennifer Dubedat who loves and idolizes her brilliant artist husband, Louis, who is dying of tuberculosis. The Secretary returns with a pile of catalogues. thing. finishing a sentence. He talked to me quite frankly before dinner as to the pressure of RIDGEON. Brain--BRAIN remains master of the situation. Now she's RIDGEON [stopping her with a nervous waving of his fingers] Yes, yes, When you know as Drugs can only repress symptoms: they cannot eradicate disease. BLENKINSOP. Do I mean--! I'm fearfully tired; but if I stop talking I shant By the way, what It would be simpler still if Dubedat had some of case for typhoid. Let me take you home in my motor. Accept it disturb him. I didn't want to waste myself. There goes the bell. Good-bye, Sir Patrick. Not in Cornwall. By the early twentieth century his reputation as a dramatist was secured with a series of critical and popular successes that included Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and Caesar and Cleopatra. an untidy table with a microscope, several test tubes, and a spirit lamp the defensive at once, and hardens his manner still more. the table]. lot of sheep when you come up against anything youre not accustomed to? deprecatory shrug. I apologize, B. SIR PATRICK [rising] Very well, very well, very well. 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