"The Doctor"

Is it a good time to talk about identity? And why not doctors? Is management preferable to leadership? How do we see a woman in power? And … what colours our religious faith?

Through confrontations and contradictions, the story unfolds like a caustic mental experiment, which highlights not only the moral dilemmas and impasses of identity politics, but also the cannibalistic “cancel culture”, which censors, ostracizes and fuels social media.

“The Doctor” is a worldwide theatrical phenomenon that puts our times under a theatrical magnifying lens. It was presented first in London (Almeida Theater and West End), and then staged within three years in the most important theatrical centres of the world, from New York and the Armory to the historic Burgtheater in Vienna and from the Adelaide Festival in Australia to the International Theater Amsterdam (ITA).

The Guardian called it “a brilliant diagnosis of modern (social) ills”.

British Robert Icke is an award-winning theater and film writer and director. He was the youngest winner of the Olivier Award for Best Director, and his accolades include two Evening Standard Awards for Best Director, the Critics’ Circle Award, the Kurt Hübner Award for his first production in Germany. Until 2023, Icke was the ‘Ibsen Artist in Residence at the Internationaal Theater’ in Amsterdam, and has been described by critics as ‘the great hope of British theatre’.

Katerina Evagelatos has previously translated and directed the adaptation co-written by Robert Icke with Duncan MacMillan on George Orwell’s 1984 (Katerina Vasilakou Theatre, 2016).