The Doctor

A staging of Robert Icke’s play The Doctor (premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2019), loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 drama Professor Bernhardi. In it, Icke has a doctor refuse a priest access to a dying patient - a decision that gradually escalates into a public controversy about institutional power, faith and identity.

The production focuses on the conscious and unconscious biases that shape our everyday decisions. This gripping moral thriller uses the clash between medical ethics and faith to explore a number of urgent questions. How do we defend “the truth” when we disagree about it, and when many people have reasons to undermine it? How do we deal with the fact that the dismissal and discrediting of our best people is often the work of manipulators of an outraged crowd? And ultimately - how does who we are shape the most important decisions we make?

The production was nominated for Best Student Direction and won the Reflektor Audience Award.