Visionary director and playwright Robert Icke (Hamlet, Oresteia, Enemy of the People) returns to Park Avenue Armory with the North American premiere of this gripping moral thriller following lauded runs at London’s Almeida Theatre and in the West End. A striking contemporary reimagining of the 1912 play Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, The Doctor utilizes the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, identity, race, gender, privilege and scientific rationality.
Olivier Award-winner Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) stars as the doctor at the center of this drama where nothing is quite what—or who—it seems. The production serves as a stark health warning for an increasingly divided nation, where clashing views about the way we see ourselves and the world we live in only magnify the complexities of life.
