Dr Semmelweis is set in mid-19th Century Vienna and follows a Hungarian surgeon who discovers the reason behind the high number of post-partum fatalities. Is it possible to have too much of a good ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The haunted, messianic Semmelweis couldn’t be more different to Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron, the antic lord of misrule Rylance reprised ...

Mark Rylance was first drawn to the story of Dr Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis and its dramatic potential in 2016, long before anyone had the inclination of the global pandemic that we were initially urged ...

Sir Mark Rylance is set to reprise the titular role in Dr Semmelweis as the play opens in London’s West End this summer. The 63-year-old Oscar-winning actor and theatre director portrayed the maverick ...

All the elements are there: a forgotten but fascinatingly tragic, true-life story about a world-changing medical discovery that saved the lives of millions; a large-cast, grand-scale production ...

A perfect fit, perhaps. And yet the challenge of dramatising Semmelweis’s story is a tricky one, given a central character who was his own worse enemy and appears to have lacked anything like charisma ...

The haunted, messianic Semmelweis couldn’t be more different to Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron, the antic lord of misrule Rylance reprised in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem last year, 13 years after originating ...

Mark Rylance makes a galvanizing return to the London stage as the 19 th century Hungarian surgeon whose work on antiseptics ultimately saved the lives of countless new mothers and newborns. The ...