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Chan—an alum whose acting skills have typically proven fantastic—gets a chance to showcase them in a new way as the villainous main character, Dr. Knock. Although Knock is typically a male role, the unconventional decision to cast Chan proves well-founded...
...KNOCK Location: Loeb Mainstage DATES: April 7-April 15, 2006 DIRECTOR: Jess R. Burkle ’06 PRODUCER: John T. Drake ’06, Aileen K. Robinson ’08, and Tatiana K. Wilson...
Although the title of “Knock: or the Triumph of Medicine” may imply an endorsement of healthcare, this Loeb Mainstage show is anything but. In its portrayal of a sinister doctor who spreads disease instead of curing it, “Knock” explores the dark underbelly of modern medicine, suggesting that instead of being “scared to death,” the saying might be better as “scared to lasting sickness...
...people of San Maurice are healthy until Dr. Knock comes to town. A character of dubious credentials who assumes the practice of a small town in France, Dr. Knock (pronounced “K-nock,” played by Julia C. Chan ’05) is driven by both materialistic and idealistic desires to his revolutionary “methods” of medicine. Dr. Knock plots to find disease in all his patients, and as he diagnoses them, they prove more and more pliable to his commands for modern treatment, with their eventual conversion to his methods...
...caustic wit and crisp British accent make Dr. Knock both sympathetic as the only voice of scientific logic in the small town of San Maurice and—once Dr. Knock successful converts the population of San Maurice to depend on his “treatments”—believable in his monstrosity as a megalomaniac authority figure who creates bedridden, paying patients out of healthy townspeople. Above all, she excels at that transition between disappointed young doctor and crazed dictator...