The Doctor

Robert Icke bows out from his role as associate director at the Almeida with an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 play Professor Bernhardi – about a Jewish physician who refuses to allow a priest to say the last rites for a patient, to spare her the knowledge of her imminent death. Juliet Stevenson stars. Dominic Cavendish Almeida Theatre, London N1 (020 7359 4404), until Sept 28