Doctor

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

Running time is 2 hours and 45 minutes with one interval.
English surtitles

Post-performance discussion with the artists.

Director Martin Kušej

Translator 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), the multi-award-winning British playwright and theatre director Robert Icke counterposes medical ethics to religious and other philosophical beliefs, populism and the poison of public opinion. What is revealed are complex connections and questions of medical ethics, economic pressures, identity politics and toxic public discourses. Icke based The Doctor on Artur Schnitzler’s 1912 comedy Professor Bernhardi, but he made his protagonist a woman and deepened the play’s problem by moving it to the present day. Along with Schnitzler’s criticism of Viennese anti-Semitism, Icke introduced a series of new motifs into The Doctor and focused on questions of identity in a broader, philosophical sense. What emerged was an exciting political and socially critical play.