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Dr Semmelweis review " Mark Rylance's riveting tale of medical hygiene pioneer by Arifa Akbar

Bristol Old VicRylance turns the life of the 19th-century doctor and campaigner for antiseptic practices into a tragedy of almost Shakespearean proportions A few months ahead of bringing "Rooster" Byron's band of outsiders back to the stage in a revival of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, Mark Rylance breathes life into a very different kind of anti-establishment figure: Dr Ignaz Semmelweis, a pioneer too ahead of his ow…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM on January 27, 2022

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