Full cast announced for West End run of DR SEMMELWEIS

Photo credit: Simon Annand

Mark Rylance returns to the West End this summer in Dr Semmelweis, which begins performances at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 29 June.

The play, in which Rylance reprises the title role, is written by Stephen Brown with Mark Rylance and is directed by Tom Morris.

In a unique theatrical event, he and the cast are joined on stage by 10 ballet dancers and the Salome string Quartet. The company are: Roseanna Anderson as Marja Seidel/Baroness Maria-Teresa, Zoe Arshamian (Dance Ensemble), Joshua Ben-Tovim as Hospital Porter/Death, Ewan Black as Franz Arneth, Chrissy Brooke as Lisa Elstein, Megumi Eda as Aiko Eda, Suzy Halstead as Violet-May Blackledge, Felix Hayes as Ferdinand von Hebra, Pauline McLynn as Anna Müller, Jude Owusu as Jakob Kolletschka, Oxana Panchenko (Dance Ensemble), Millie Thomas as Agnes Barta, Max Westwell as Hospital Porter/Death, Amanda Wilkin as Maria Semmelweis, Alan Williams as Johann Klein, Daniel York Loh as Karl von Rokitansky, Patricia Zhou (Dance Ensemble), and Helen Belbin, Jason Hogan, Andrew McDonald, with the Salomé Quartet - Haim Choi as Suk Hee Apfelbaum (Music Director/Violin 1), Coco Inman as Sarah Schmidt (Violin 2), Kasia Zimińska  as Eszter Horowitz (Viola) and Shizuku Tatsuno  as Oshizu Yukimura (Cello).

In Vienna, a city of artistic and scientific revolution, thousands of women are still dying in childbirth each and every year. Dr Semmelweis dedicates himself to overcoming the invisible killer but to do so he must convince his colleagues that they themselves are causing the deaths of their patients.

Damned by an establishment that questions his methods, his motives and even his sanity, Semmelweis is haunted by the women he has failed to save. Can he finally convince the greatest doctors of 19th century Europe to accept his argument – and what will it cost him to make an almost impossible case?

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