THERE’S one thing everyone might be suffering from when a brand new production of The Hypochondriac arrives in Malvern next month and that’s a fit of the giggles.

Richard Bean, the adaptor of One Man, Two Guvnors has turned Moliere’s medicinal masterpiece into a riotous farce which features two of the UK’s well known and popular actors in Tony Robinson and Imogen Stubbs.

It heads for Malvern’s Festival Theatre for a week long run from Monday, November 3 to Saturday, November 8.

The penny-pinching Argan, played by Tony Robinson, is healthy, wealthy and completely obsessed by a list of imaginary ailments. Confusion is piled upon hilarious confusion as a gang of eccentric quacks and Argan’s treacherous wife (Imogen Stubbs) endeavour to fleece him of his fortune, whilst his lovesick daughter, her dashing lover and an astute maid, attempt to set him straight.

Tony Robinson is one of the UK’s best-loved actors. He is famous for playing Baldrick in Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4’s Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History. He was knighted in 2013.

The supporting cast includes Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow, Hairspray, Scott & Bailey), Craig Gazey (The Full Monty, Sheffield and West End runs, and Coronation Street) and Michael Thomas (RSC and National Theatre seasons & Sam Mendes’ productions of As You Like It and The Tempest).

Lindsay Posner is one of the UK’s greatest directors of comedy. His recent successes include Noises Off, Abigail’s Party, Relatively Speaking and he directs Hay Fever in the Theatre Royal Bath’s Summer Season. This is a brand new production of a comedy he directed to huge acclaim at the Almeida Theatre in 2005.