Doctor

Première 17. 4. 2025, Veliki oder SNG Drama Ljubljana

Running time 2 hours 45 minutes, with one intermission.
Surtitles: English

Post-performance discussion with the artists.

Director Martin Kušej

ranslator Tina Mahkota

Dramaturg Diana Koloini

Language consultant Tatjana Stanič

Set designer Jessica Rockstroh

Costume designer Ana Savić Gecan

Composer Aki Traar

Assistant director Herbert Stöger

Assistant set designer Karin Knez

Assistant costume designer Ana Janc

Lighting designer Stefan Pfeistlinger

Make-up artist Julija Gongina

Cast

Nataša Barbara Gračner, Irena Yebuah Tiran as guest, Timon Šturbej, Bojan Emeršič,
Aleš Valič as guest, Uroš Fürst, Saša Mihelčič, Saša Tabaković, Tina Vrbnjak, Marko Mandić, Maša Derganc/Nina Valič

The production features Ana Pribošič.

In The Doctor (2019), Robert Icke reimagines Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 play Professor Bernhardi, altering its protagonist into a female and deepening its central conflict by setting it in the present. Icke, a contemporary English theatre director and playwright, has built his reputation on bold adaptations of classic works, and The Doctor is his most renowned. However, it has not entirely supplanted Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi; in recent years, both the original and Icke’s reworking have been staged in many European repertory theatres. This is no coincidence—both plays grapple with medical ethics and the tensions between professional duty and shifting social paradigms.