Dona Croll stars in ‘The Doctor’

Dona Croll stars in ‘The Doctor’

2.9.2022

Doña Croll stars in new play ‘The Doctor’, which will go on tour for four weeks starting in Brighton on September 5th before beginning a West End run at Duke of York’s Theatre.

The play is based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 drama, Professor Bernhardi. The pre-World War One drama was banned when war broke out in 1914, and was later allowed to be staged after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918.

The original play explores the treatment of a woman who contracts sepsis after an abortion. Nearly a century later, Robert Icke’s contemporary version of The Doctor follows a similar story. This time, the story is set in north London and follows Professor Ruth Woolf, a senior physician who treats a young patient with sepsis. When a priest is sent by the girl’s parents to deliver the last rites, her doctor refuses, posing a huge moral dilemma, which erupts into a national scandal.

Doña Croll is joined by a cast of Juliet Stevenson, Christopher Osikanlu Colquhoun, Daniel Rabin, and Naomi Wirthner.

The Doctor runs from 5th – 24th September on tour and then 29th September til 11th December at Duke of York’s Theatre. Get tickets here.

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