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Almeida West End
Very freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi by Robert Icke
Directed By Robert Icke
At the Duke of York's Theatre, London
Following government advice, the Duke of York's Theatre has temporarily closed, with all performances of The Doctor postponed until 2021 (exact dates to be announced).
Any customers affected by the cancellation should contact their original point of sale for a credit voucher or refund. Customers who booked tickets for The Doctor from this page, or an email from the Almeida, should contact ATG Tickets on atgcustomer@theambassadors.com or by calling 0333 009 6690. More information on ATG's response can be found here.
The Almeida Box Office unfortunately holds no booking information for the West End production of The Doctor.
★★★★★
The Guardian, The Telegraph, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, WhatsOnStage
Olivier Award-winner Juliet Stevenson delivers “one of the performances of the year” (Evening Standard) in the West End transfer of Robert Icke’s sold-out, five-star Almeida Theatre production.
First, do no harm.
On an ordinary day, at a private hospital, a young woman fights for her life. A priest arrives to save her soul. Her doctor refuses him entry.
In a divisive time, in a divided nation, a society takes sides.
The latest smash-hit by “Britain’s best director” (The Telegraph) is a "provocative, wonderfully upsetting" (Independent) whirlwind of gender, race and identity politics, "one of the peaks of the theatrical year" (The Guardian) and a "devastating play for today" (Financial Times).
Mon – Sat evenings 7.30pm
Thu & Sat matinees 2.30pm
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For the Almeida: Mary Stuart (also West End).
Theatre includes: One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); Yellowman (Young Vic); The Lion King (West End); The Believers (Frantic Assembly); The Colour Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory); A Midsummers Night's Dream (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Britannicus (Wilton’s Music Hall); Happy Now? (Hull Truck Theatre); Five Guys Named Moe (Theatre Royal Stratford East/ UK Tour); Troilus And Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe); Macbeth; Three Sisters; Snake in the Fridge; The Way of The World (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Thief of Bagdad (Royal Opera House); Saint Joan (National Theatre); The Comedy of Errors; Moby Dick; King Lear; The Tempest; The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Simply Heavenly (West End); Ain't Misbehavin (Derby Theatre); Blues in The Night (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Angels In America (Crucible Theatre); The Slow Drag (Whitehall Theatre); Romeo And Juliet (US Tour); Woza Albert; Gates of Paradise (RSC Fringe Festival); Dysfunction in my Bungalow (Theatr Clwyd); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; West Side Story; Camelot (Northern Theatre Company).
Television includes: Absentia; Ransom; Vera; Midsomer Murders; Flowers; Law and Order; The Crash; Missing; Coronation Street; Wire in the Blood; Belonging; North Square; Silent Witness; London Bridge; Band Of Gold; Shakespeare Shorts; The Bill; Casualty.
Film includes: Iboy; Oh Happy Day.
Theatre includes: All's Well That Ends Well; The Island Princess; The Roman Actor; Eastward Ho! (RSC); An Unsuitable Girl (Contact Theatre Manchester); Miss Julie (Tara Arts); Muslim Voices (Royal Court).
Television includes: Deep State; The Rook; Death in Paradise; Back; Liar; Heartbeat; W1A; The Lottery; By Any Means; 24: Live Another Day; Heading Out; Silent Witness; Terra Nova; Marchlands; Strike Back; The Scum also Rises; Mistresses Series I, II & III; Raw; Dead Set; Countdown To War; The Palace; The Persuasionists; Mistresses; Trial and Retribution XVI; Party Animals; The Innocence Project; Blue Murder; Down To Earth; Mersey Beat; Attachments; Falling Down; Casualty; Man & Boy; Hawk; The Last Musketeer; City Central; Back.
Film includes: Love Sarah; How Do You Know; New Town Killers; Nina's Heavenly Delights; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; L'entente Cordiale; Maybe Baby; Possession; Second Generation; Transit.
Theatre includes: Three Sisters; Blood Wedding ( National Theatre); Bullet Hole (Park Theatre); Treasure Island; National Health (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); The Last Bloom (Traverse Theatre); Mind the Gap (Y Touring Theatre); The Crucible (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Children’s Hour; Yerma (Royal Exchange Theatre); Tartuffe; The Crucible; Suddenly Last Summer (Clwyd Theatr); The Miracle Worker; Blithe Spirit; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (West End); A Raisin in the Sun; Dr Faustus; The Carver Chair (Contact Theatre); To Kill A Mockingbird (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); No Boys Cricket Club; This is My Dream (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Livingstone and Sechele (Lyric Hammersmith); All’s Well that Ends Well (Oxford Stage Company) Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet (US/ West Indian Tour).
Television includes: EastEnders; Trust Me; Tripped; Casualty; The Bill; Holby City; Wire in the Blood; Judge John Deed; The Wire; Rough Crossing.
Film includes: Wondrous Oblivion; Absolute Beginners; Passion of Remembrance; Outland.
Theatre includes: Top Girls (National Theatre).
Television includes: Elizabeth Is Missing; The Great; Snatches - Reclaim the Night; Three Girls.
Film Includes: Jellyfish; The Fight; The Little Stranger.
For the Almeida: The Doctor.
Theatre includes: Queer Upstairs (Royal Court); Bumps (Theatre503); All Mod Cons (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Julius Caesar; Playing For Time; A Dream; The Sheffield Mysteries; 20 Tiny Plays About Sheffield (Crucible Theatre); The Interview (The Mono Box/ The Biscuit Factory); The Vagina Monologues (Theatre Deli/ SheFest).
Film includes: Re-displacement.
Mariah recently graduated from Guildford School of Acting.
Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End/ Broadway); Guys and Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); High Society (The Old Vic); Assasins; Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Candida (Theatre Royal Bath); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Henry V; Henry IV Parts I & II; A New World; As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); King James Bible; Revenger’s Tragedy (National Theatre); Racing Demon (Crucible Theatre); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (West End/ Chichester Festival Theatre); My Zinc Bed (Royal and Derngate Northampton); The History Boys (National Theatre/ Broadway); Singer (Tricycle Theatre); At The Exit; The Gondoliers (Chichester Festival Theatre); Between the Crosses (Jermyn Street Theatre); After The Dance (Oxford Stage Company).
Television includes: Treadstone; The Cloud; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel; Count Arthur Strong; Lawless; Politician’s Husband; Parade’s End; Silk; The Hour; Burn Up; Horne and Corden; Imagine Van Gogh; Silent Witness; Maxwell; As If; Wire In The Blood; Foyle’s War.
Film includes: 1917; The Lady In The Van; Le Weekend; Valkyrie; The History Boys.
Jamie won an Olivier Award for Best Actor for his role as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and received a Tony Award Nomination 2018 for Best Leading actor in a play.
For the Almeida: The Doctor; Mary Stuart (also West End); Hamlet (also West End).
Theatre includes: King Lear (Duke of York's Theatre); 1984 (West End); Pericles; The Winter’s Tale; King John; ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Anthony and Cleopatra; Holy Warriors (Shakespeare’s Globe); Oedipus (Nottingham Playhouse/ Spoleto Festival); Ignorance (Hampstead Theatre); Blue Remembered Hills (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Bomb (Tricycle Theatre); The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre/ US Tour); Sixty Six Books (Bush Theatre); The Fever Chart (Trafalgar Studios/ York Theatre Royal); Enemy of the People (Arcola Theatre); All Quiet on the Western Front; Chicken Soup with Barley (Nottingham Playhouse); Shoreditch Madonna; Diamond; Jerusalem Syndrome (Soho Theatre); The Last Sortie (New End Theatre/ Hampstead Theatre); Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Lyric Hammersmith).
Television includes: Doctors; The Royals; Game of Thrones; Ambassadors; Doctors; Our Men; Holby City Murder on the Homefront Spooks Henry - Mind of a Tyrant; The Bill; Casualty;The Roman Mysteries EastEnders Money Can't Buy You Love
Film includes: Lilac's Laughter; Mind the Gap; Two's Company; The Penalty King; Bury It; Susie Gold
For the Almeida: The Doctor; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (also West End).
Theatre includes: Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Cheek By Jowl); Shakespeare In Love (Noel Coward Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing; The Taming Of The Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe/ UK Tour); To Kill A Mocking Bird (Manchester Royal Exchange); What You Will: Pop Up Shakespeare; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; The Maid’s Tragedy; The Winter’s Tale; Ghost Of Lucrece (Shakespeare’s Globe); Song Of Songs (RSC); Phoenix Rising (Tara Arts); Welcome To Thebes; The Observer; Citizenship/Burn; The Oresteia; Racing Demon; Pericles; Fuente Ovejuna (National Theatre); Greenwash (Orange Tree); Playboy of the West Indies (Tricycle Theatre); The Royal Family (Theatre Royal Haymarket); From the Mississippi Delta; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Vic); S.A.B.; Downfall (Royal Court); Medea (Manchester Royal Exchange).
Television includes: Small Axe; The Long Song; Silent Witness; Casualty; Mrs Wilson; Press; Legends of Tomorrow; Walliams and Friend; The Comic Strip Presents – Red Top; Doctors; Holby City; Family Man; Trial And Retribution; Judge John Deed; Mccready & Daughter; The Bill; Agony Again; Bambino Mio.
Film Includes: Children of Men; Tug of Love.
Joy won the Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actress for her role in From the Mississippi Delta.
For the Almeida: Mary Stuart (also West End); Hamlet (also West End); The Odyssey; Duet For One (also West End).
Theatre includes: Beckett Shorts (RSC Stratford / Europe); Les Liaisons Dangereuses; As You Like It; Troilus and Cressida; Measure For Measure; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Witch of Edmonton; Money (RSC Stratford / Barbican); Henry IV Parts I & II (RSC Stratford Tour); Once In A Lifetime; The White Guard (RSC Aldwych); Hippolytus; Anthony and Cleopatra; The Churchill Play; The Taming Of The Shrew; The Tempest (RSC Stratford); Alice Trilogy; The Country; Other Worlds (Royal Court); The Seagull; Private Lives; Hedda Gabler; Yerma (National Theatre); We Happy Few (Gielgud Theatre); Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre / Tour); The Duchess Of Malfi (Greenwich / West End); Scenes From An Execution (Mark Taper Forum, LA); Death and the Maiden (Royal Court / West End); Burn This (Hampstead / West End); On The Verge (Sadler’s Wells); The Trackers of Exyrhynchtus (National Theatre Studio).
Television includes: Dustbin Baby; Place of Execution; Hear The Silence; The Pact; Trial By Fire; Cider With Rosie; Stone Scissors Paper; The Politician’s Wife; Out Of Love; Stanley; A Doll’s House; Life Story; Antigone; Freud; Bazaar and Rummage; The Mallens; Maybury; Great Journeys: Isabella Eberhardt; Oedipus At Colonus.
Film includes: Desert Flower; The Secret of Moonacre; And When Did You Last See Your Father; Breaking And Entering; Pierrepoint; The Snow Queen; A Previous Engagement; Every Word Is True; Red Mercury Rising; Being Julia; Mona Lisa Smile; Nicholas Nickleby; Food For Love; Bend It Like Beckham; The Search For John Gissing; The Road From Coorain; Play (Samuel Beckett); Emma; A Secret Rapture; Who Dealt; The Trial; Truly Madly Deeply; Drowning By Numbers.
For the Almeida: The Doctor; Against.
Theatre includes: An Evening at The Talkhouse; An Oak Tree; Marat Sade; Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards (National Theatre); Blood Wedding (Metta Theatre); Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (Donmar Warehouse); Madman of the Balcony (Gate Theatre); States of Shock (Salisbury Playhouse); The Bite of the Night; Measure for Measure; Cymbeline; Have; The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); The Wizard of Oz; Sunday's Children (Derby Theatre); Top Girls (Sherman Theatre); Three Sisters (Theatr Clywd); The Crucible; School for Scandal (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Kes (Contact Theatre, Manchester); Tokens of Affection (Northern Studio).
Television includes: Fiona's Story; Babyfather; Wycliffe; Soldier Soldier; Between the Lines; El Cid.
Radio includes: The Broughton Butchers; Ntombi: Morning Story; Travels in West Africa; Running Dogs; Anagonia; Caribbean Night.
Naomi is the Artistic Director of The Barebones Project.
Recent directing credits include: African Gothic by Reza de Wet (Arcola Theatre), Lonestar by James McClure and PVT Wars by James McClure (both for The Barebones Project).
Naomi trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre includes: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Bridge Theatre); The King of Hell’s Palace (Hampstead Theatre); Pah-La (Royal Court).
Television includes: Dracula.
Direction
For the Almeida: Mary Stuart (also West End); Hamlet (also West End and BBC2); Uncle Vanya; Oresteia (also West End); The Fever ; Mr Burns; 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan; also Broadway, West End, National and International tours).
Theatre includes: Oedipus (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); Boys; Romeo and Juliet (Headlong).
Robert is Associate Director at the Almeida. Elsewhere his recent work includes The Crucible (Theater Basel), Oedipus (Toneelgroep Amsterdam and runs at Edinburgh International Festival this summer) and Orestie (Schauspiel Stuttgart, awarded the Kurt-Hübner-Regiepreis). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has won the UK Theatre Award, the Critics’ Circle Award and the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director, and is the youngest ever winner of the Olivier Award for Best Director.
Set and Costume Design
For the Almeida: Hamlet (also West End); Mary Stuart (also West End); Oresteia (also West End);The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (also West End); Richard III; Uncle Vanya; Rosmersholm.
Theatre includes: Antony and Cleopatra; Waste; A Taste of Honey; Scenes from an Execution; After The Dance; Harper Regan; The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other; The Hothouse; Therese Raquin; Exiles; Iphigenia at Aulis; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; King Lear (National Theatre); Primo (National Theatre/ Broadway); Consent (National Theatre/ West End); Oedipus (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); Teddy Ferrara; Roots; Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar); Mood Music; Cause Celebre; All About My Mother; Richard II (Old Vic); The Seagull (Royal Court/ Broadway); Now or Later; Krapp’s Last Tape; Terrorism; Blasted (Royal Court); My Name is Rachel Corrie (Royal Court/ New York); Electra (RSC); The Jewish Wife (Young Vic); Good People; Passion Play; Old Times; Blithe Spirit; The Misanthrope; Hedda Gabler; The Crucible; The Master Builder (West End); Top Hat (West End/ World Tour); The Sunshine Boys (West End/ Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles); Arcadia (West End/ Broadway).
Opera includes: productions at Edinburgh International Festival, Santa Fe Opera, La Scala Milan, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera North, Munich Staatsoper, Amsterdam Musiktheater, Sydney Opera House, Paris Opera and most recently, The Exterminating Angel for Salzburg, ROH and The Met.
Film includes: Primo; Krapp’s Last Tape; Richard II; Hedda Gabler.
She received an Olivier Award for her design of After the Dance, and also won the Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House.
Light
For the Almeida: Hamlet; Oresteia.
Theatre includes: The Deep Blue Sea; The Chalk Garden; The House They Grew Up In (Chichester); We Are Here (La Mama New York); Allelujah! (Bridge Theatre); The American Clock; Sylvia (Old Vic); Oedipus (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); The Duchess of Malfi (RSC); Belleville (Donmar Warehouse); The Cane; Bad Roads; Mistress Contract; Fireworks (Royal Court); 1984 (West End/ Broadway); Strapless (Royal Ballet); Sunset at the Villa Thalia; Statement of Regret (National Theatre); Happy Days (Sheffield Crucible); Green Snake (National Theatre of China); The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (National Theatre of Wales); Macbeth (Broadway); 27; The Wolves in the Walls and Home (National Theatre of Scotland); Sunday in the Park with George (West End).
Natasha’s awards include an Olivier Award nomination 2016 for Oresteia (White Light Award for Best Lighting Design); UK Theatre Award 2011 for Happy Days (Best Design); Olivier Award 2007 for Sunday in the Park with George (Best Lighting Design).
Sound and Composition
For the Almeida: The Wild Duck; Hamlet (also West End); Oresteia (also Trafalgar Studios); Mr Burns; 1984 (also West End/ Broadway).
Theatre includes: The End of History; Pah-La; The Woods; Love Love Love (Royal Court); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); All About Eve (West End); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Home, I’m Darling (National Theatre/Theatr Clwyd); Oedipus (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); Fanny and Alexander; The Lorax (The Old Vic) Hedda Gabler; Sunset at the Villa Thalia; The Red Barn; People; Places and Things (National Theatre/ West End); A View From the Bridge (Young Vic/West End); Life of Galileo; Happy Days; A Season in the Congo, Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden); The Crucible (Broadway); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Moderate Soprano, Elephants (Hampstead Theatre); White Devil, As You Like It (RSC); Translations, Plenty (Crucible Theatre); The Absence of War, Romeo & Juliet (Headlong); Lion Boy (Complicité); Henry IV; Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse); Grounded (Gate Theatre);The Spire (Salisbury Playhouse); London; The Angry Brigade; Wasted (Paines Plough); Roundabout Season (Shoreditch Town Hall/ Paines Plough); The Rover (Hampton Court Palace); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman).
Tom received the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design for Places and Things.
Casting
For the Almeida: Three Sisters; The Wild Duck; Machinal; The Writer; Summer and Smoke (also West End); The Twilight Zone (also West End); The Treatment; Hamlet (also West End); Mary Stuart (also West End); Oil; Uncle Vanya; Medea; Oresteia (also West End); Game; Mr Burns; Chimerica (also West End); Before the Party; The Turn of the Screw; King Lear; Children’s Children; Filumena; The Knot of the Heart; Through a Glass Darkly; Measure for Measure; When the Rain Stops Falling; In a Dark Dark House; The Homecoming; Nocturne; Awake and Sing!; Dying for It; Out of the Fog.
Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre/ Lyric Theatre Broadway); All About Eve (West End); The Inheritance (Young Vic/ West End); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ New York/ San Francisco); Yerma (Young Vic/ Park Ave Armory); A View from the Bridge (Young Vic/ West End/ Broadway); A Doll’s House (Young Vic/ West End/ BAM); Jesus Hopped the A Train; Fun Home; Yellowman; Wings; Life of Galileo; Once in a Lifetime; Blue/Orange; The Trial; Ah, Wilderness!; Man; Happy Days; Public Enemy; The Shawl; Blackta; Wild Swans; After Miss Julie; The Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Annie Get Your Gun; In The Red and Brown Water; Lost Highway (Young Vic); Obsession; Hamlet (Barbican); The Nether; Clybourne Park (Royal Court/ West End); Adler & Gibb; Birdland; The Mistress Contract; Khandan; The Pass; Gastronauts; The Heretic; Get Santa!; Kin; Red Bud; Tribes; Wanderlust; Spur of the Moment; Sucker Punch; Ingredient X (Royal Court); The Events (ATC/ New York); The Golden Dragon; Bad Jazz; A Brief History of Helen of Troy; Martyr(ATC); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ Sydney Festival); Pool (no water) (Frantic Assembly); Gaddafi: A Living Myth (English National Opera); Othello (Cheek by Jowl); The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh International Festival/ Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin).
Film and TV includes: Hamlet; Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere; The Trial: A Murder in the Family; The Exception; Departure; Astoria; Adha Cup; Parliamo Glasgow; Harvest.
Associate Costumer Designer
For the Almeida: Medea; Ink; The Twilight Zone; Filomena.
Theatre includes: Company (Gielgud Theatre); The Birthday Party (The Harold Pinter Theatre); Angels in America; Oslo; Peter Gynt (National Theatre); Good People; Wonderland; Hapgood; Jude (Hampstead Theatre); Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/ West End/ UK Tour); As You Desire Me (Playhouse Theatre); King Lear; The Winslow Boy (Chichester Festival Theatre); Shakespeare Trilogy; Closer; Philadelphia Here I Come (Donmar Warehouse).
Opera includes: Vanessa; The Rape of Lucretia; La Boheme; St Matthew Passion (Glyndebourne); Agrippina; Orfeo; Salome; Alcina; Child of our Time; Trojans; Ernani; The Mikado; Don Giovanni (English National Opera/ Basel/ Oslo); Cosi Fan Tutte (ENO – Barbican).
Deborah studied Fashion Design at Central St Martins College of Art and then worked in fashion before being lured into the theatre. She has worked as a Costume Designer, Associate Designer and Supervisor in both opera and theatre.
Drums/Additional Composition
Hannah is a multi-instrumentalist (drums, bass guitar, guitar and keyboard) music producer and entrepreneur. She studied Music Performance and Production at the London Centre of Contemporary Music and Berklee Music College in Boston USA. She has performed at several top music venues including Wembley Stadium and Jazz Café. Her versatility has seen her play music genres from punk rock, jazz to hip hop and is the founder of the music company Adlib Music Ltd. Hannah is currently producing and playing music with various music and theatre companies including Streets Music.
The running time is approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes including a 20-minute interval.
This production features bright, flashing lights and strobe.
CONTENT WARNING
The Doctor includes the discussion of suicide and the description of suicide methods. This production has an age recommendation of 14+.
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Adaptation and Direction Robert Icke
Design Hildegard Bechtler
Light Natasha Chivers
Sound and Composition Tom Gibbons
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Associate Costume Designer
Deborah Andrews
Additional Composition
Hannah Ledwidge
Cast
Christopher Colquhoun
Shelley Conn
Anni Domingo
Liv Hall
Mariah Louca
Jamie Parker
Daniel Rabin
Joy Richardson
Juliet Stevenson
Naomi Wirthner
Millicent Wong