Olivier Award winner Juliet Stevenson delivers “one of the performances of the year” (Evening Standard) in Robert Icke’s sold-out, five-star Almeida Theatre production THE DOCTOR, which transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a limited run.
“Provocative, deft and disturbing” (The Times), THE DOCTOR was nominated for the Olivier for Best New Play and Best Actress, as well as an Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for Robert Icke and a Critic’s Circle Award for Best Actress for Juliet Stevenson at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
The latest smash-hit by “Britain’s best director” (Telegraph), freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi, is “one of the peaks of the theatrical year” (Guardian), and a “devastating play for today” (Financial Times).
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In a top London hospital, senior physician Professor Ruth Woolf treats a young patient with sepsis. When her case takes a turn for the worse, a priest is sent by the girl’s parents to deliver the last rites, which puts THE DOCTOR in a huge moral dilemma. Ethics, religion and morality are questioned as the situation erupts into a national scandal.
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2 hours 45 minutes, including interval.
(from the 2019 run at the Almeida Theatre)
Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Nathalie Armin, Paul Higgins, Mariah Louca, Pamela Nomvete, Daniel Rabin, Joy Richardson, Kirsty Rider, Juliet Stevenson, Naomi Wirthner, Ria Zmitrowicz
Robert Icke (Adaption and Direction), Hildegard Bechtler (Design), Natasha Chivers (Light), Tom Gibbons (Sound and Composition), Julia Horan CDG (Casting), Deborah Andrews (Associate Costume Designer), Additional Composition Hannah Ledwidge, TD Moyo (Resident Director), Megan Doyle (Costume Supervision), Maybelle Laye (Costume Assistant), Michael Hankin (Design Assistant)
Please note:
*Recommended for ages 14+. This production features bright, flashing lights and strobe.
**The Doctor includes antisemitism, the discussion of suicide and the description of suicide methods. If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this production, you can get free support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from the Samaritans. Visit samaritans.org or call 116 123 for free.
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'A performance by Juliet Stevenson that is one of the peaks of the theatrical year'
'An astonishing, gripping evening'
'A towering performance that will surely win awards'
'Provocative, deft and disturbing'
'It features one of the performances of the year'
