The Hypochondriak By Hector MacMillan

Liz Lochhead's Tartuffe aside, The Hypochondriak is perhaps the most successful example of a long tradition of translating Molière's great comedies into Scots.

Hector MacMillan's hilarious adaptation of the great man's Le Malade Imaginaire follows the story of Argan, a wealthy and hopeless hypochondriac, morbidly convinced of his imminent demise on account of his imaginary illnesses.

What follows is a masterclass in situational comedy involving a procession of idiotic and exploitative doctors, a gold digging wife, an exasperated servant and lots more.