Bristol Old Vic; Riverside Studios, LondonMark Rylance mines more drama from the 19th-century doctor driven mad by his work on hygiene than Elizabeth McGovern finds in the faded glamour of Ava Gardner From now on I'll find it hard to wash my hands without thinking of Mark Rylance. In Dr Semmelweis he incarnates the Hungarian doctor who was a pioneer of antisepsis but is now largely forgotten. Perplexed, furious and z…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM on January 30, 2022