The Doctor

The Doctor

A girl lies dying in a hospital room. A priest wants to enter, but her doctor won't let her. This is also how Professor Bernhardi from 1912 by the Austrian playwright and family doctor Arthur Schnitzler begins, on which The Doctor is loosely based. In Robert Icke's adaptation, the Jewish doctor Bernhardi has become a woman: the Jewish-secular Ruth Wolff. In addition, Icke has added the complexity of external opinions and relationships as a story engine. Racial prejudices and hidden agendas make The Doctor a thriller in which conflicting views on ourselves and the world form an explosive cocktail.

Robert Icke

Robert Icke is considered the great talent of the British stage. He has a great heart for classical repertoire, which he adapts in a personal and radical way. As house director at ITA he also wrote and directed Oedipus (based on Sophocles), Children of Nora (a sequel to A Doll's House by Ibsen) and the biblically based Judas .