Dr Semmelweis, Harold Pinter Theatre review - a play in search of a bedside manner
Mark Rylance conceived and stars in this stirring, but problematic drama of medical discovery hampered by prejudice As an actor, Mark Rylance specialises in outsiders and eccentrics, outliers of one kind or another. He identified and developed his latest character himself, based on the real-life, mid-19th century Hungarian doctor whose pioneering, lifesaving discoveries were long ignored by the medical Establis…
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