Dr Semmelweis performs at Harold Pinter Theatre 29 June – 7 October 2023
Mark Rylance returns to the West End this summer season as one in all medication’s biggest pioneers, maverick Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis – the person whose analysis may save many tens of millions of moms’ lives. Dr Semmelweis opening on the Harold Pinter Theatre on 29 June, and working till Saturday 7 October. The critically acclaimed Bristol Old Vic manufacturing, directed by Tom Morris, opened in 2022, and sees Rylance reprise the title position.
With preview tickets from £10 and over 350 tickets per week at £25 or much less, the manufacturing will play for a strictly restricted 14-week run.
“We are the doctors of the modern age. We are marching into battle.”
But what good is a discovery when it falls on deaf ears?
In Vienna, a metropolis of inventive and scientific revolution, 1000’s of girls are nonetheless dying in childbirth each yr. Only Dr Semmelweis can see the invisible killer at work, however to cease it, he should persuade his colleagues to confess culpability and approve change.
Damned by an institution that questions his strategies, his motives and even his sanity, Semmelweis is haunted by the ladies he has failed to save lots of. Can he lastly persuade the best docs of 19th century Europe to just accept his argument – and what is going to it price him to make an virtually unattainable case?
Following a “smash hit” (Mail on Sunday), sold-out run at Bristol Old Vic, this “compelling new drama” (The Telegraph) directed by Tom Morris, that includes dwell music by Adrian Sutton and authentic choreography by Antonia Franceschi of Balanchine’s New York City Ballet, involves the Harold Pinter Theatre within the West End for a strictly restricted run this summer season.