The Doctor is a 2019 play by Robert Icke. It is a reimagining of the 1912 play Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler. Plot The play follows Professor Ruth Wolff, the Founding Director of the Elizabeth Institute, who refuses to let a Catholic priest into the operating room where a girl is dying from a botched self-administered abortion. After a recording of the physical altercation with the priest goes viral on the internet, Ruth begins to receive severe backlash from some of the hospital staff, the girl’s father, a network of social media users, and eventually, a TV panel of social activist groups. Each of the panellists question Ruth’s intention for prohibiting the priest’s entrance, who is later revealed to be a Black man, and criticize her refusal to identify with labels. The Doctor explores themes of identity, race, privilege, religion, mental health, and sexuality. In the original production, nontraditional casting methods were employed, such as color-conscious casting, to manipulate the audience’s expectations and internal biases towards identity groups. Production history Almeida Theatre The production premiered at the Almeida Theatre on August 10, 2019. It was created and directed by Robert Icke, designed by Hildegard Bechtler, lighting was designed by Natasha Chivers and sound by Tom Gibbons. It was Icke's final production as the Associate Director of the Almeida. It is an adaptation of Viennese dramatist Arthur Schnitzler's 1912 play Professor Bernhardi.

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Notable quotes

“Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles?”
— An Unearthly Child [1.1] (23 November -14 December 1963)
“There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes.”
— Robot [12.1] (28 December 1974 - 18 January 1975)
“I suppose you could say the yoke's on him if you were the sort of person who said that sort of thing which fortunately I'm not.”
— The Creature From the Pit [17.3] (27 October - 17 November 1979)
“You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive.”
— The End of the World [1.2] (2 April 2005)
“Before you ask, that fire had nothing to do with me. Well, a little bit.”
— The Fires of Pompeii [4.2] (12 April 2008)
“We all change. When you think about it, we are all different people, all through our lives. And that's ok, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day...I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.”
— The Time of the Doctor [7.15] (25 December 2013)

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Notable quotes

“Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles?”
— An Unearthly Child [1.1] (23 November -14 December 1963)
“There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes.”
— Robot [12.1] (28 December 1974 - 18 January 1975)
“I suppose you could say the yoke's on him if you were the sort of person who said that sort of thing which fortunately I'm not.”
— The Creature From the Pit [17.3] (27 October - 17 November 1979)
“You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive.”
— The End of the World [1.2] (2 April 2005)
“Before you ask, that fire had nothing to do with me. Well, a little bit.”
— The Fires of Pompeii [4.2] (12 April 2008)
“We all change. When you think about it, we are all different people, all through our lives. And that's ok, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day...I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.”
— The Time of the Doctor [7.15] (25 December 2013)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

The Doctor is a 2019 play by Robert Icke. It is a reimagining of the 1912 play Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler.

Overview

The Doctor is a 2019 play by Robert Icke. It is a reimagining of the 1912 play Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler. Plot The play follows Professor Ruth Wolff, the Founding Director of the Elizabeth Institute, who refuses to let a Catholic priest into the operating room where a girl is dying from a botched self-administered abortion. After a recording of the physical altercation with the priest goes viral on the internet, Ruth begins to receive severe backlash from some of the hospital staff, the girl’s father, a network of social media users, and eventually, a TV panel of social activist groups. Each of the panellists question Ruth’s intention for prohibiting the priest’s entrance, who is later revealed to be a Black man, and criticize her refusal to identify with labels. The Doctor explores themes of identity, race, privilege, religion, mental health, and sexuality. In the original production, nontraditional casting methods were employed, such as color-conscious casting, to manipulate the audience’s expectations and internal biases towards identity groups. Production history Almeida Theatre The production premiered at the Almeida Theatre on August 10, 2019. It was created and directed by Robert Icke, designed by Hildegard Bechtler, lighting was designed by Natasha Chivers and sound by Tom Gibbons. It was Icke's final production as the Associate Director of the Almeida. It is an adaptation of Viennese dramatist Arthur Schnitzler's 1912 play Professor Bernhardi.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).