text Robert Icke directed by Ricardo Neves-Neves translated by Ana Sampaio costumes Rafaela Mapril set design Fernando Ribeiro lighting design and technical direction Cristina Piedade sound design Sérgio Delgado assistance direction Diana Vaz, José Leite direction and stage assistance support Pedro Deus, Santiago Galvão production manager Nuno Pratas cast Adriano Luz, Custódia Gallego, Eduarda Arriaga, Igor Regalla, Inês Castel-Branco, José Leite, Luciana Balby, Maria José Paschoal, Pedro Laginha, Rita Cabaço, Sandra Faleiro, Vera Cruz produced by Teatro da Trindade INATEL, Teatro do Eléctrico co-produced by Culturproject, Cineteatro Louletano, Teatro Nacional São João opening 12 Dec 2024 Teatro da Trindade INATEL (Lisboa)
13 — 16 Mar
Teatro São João
A Médica
text Robert Icke
directed by Ricardo Neves-Neves
Teatro da Trindade INATEL, Teatro do Eléctrico
Sinopse do evento
A girl is dying in a hospital because of a self-managed abortion that went wrong. The director of the Alma Institute refuses to let a Catholic priest in, thinking his presence would cause the girl unnecessary distress. A recording of the altercation between the doctor and the priest, which has gone viral on the Internet, generates a passionate online polemic and a TV panel of various social activists, turning into a “televised public trial”. A Médica [The Doctor], a play by English author Robert Icke, is an adaptation to present times of Professor Bernhardi, the improbable comedy Arthur Schnitzler wrote in 1912. Staged by Ricardo Neves-Neves, this new version explores in an ironic way the moral, ethical and religious conflicts that continue to emerge daily in all sorts of circumstances, and which may be just as devastating today as in Schnitzler’s time.
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