Doktor Glas
From: Tuesday, 16th April 2013
To: Saturday, 11 May 2013
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Synopsis
Wallander's Krister Henriksson stars in this one-man play about a 19th century physician who falls madly in love with the beautiful young wife of a corrupt clergyman. When she confides in him that her marriage is making her miserable, he agrees to help in whatever way he can. Soon Doktor Glas finds himself torn between his passion and his morality, and drives the play towards its shocking climax.
Buy your tickets now to see Hjalmer Söderberg's novel adapted for the stage and performed in its original Swedish with English surtitles.
Doktor Glas will run at Wyndham’s Theatre from 16 April to 11 May 2013.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 19 April 2013
The Swedish Wallander, Krister Henriksson, has brought his stylish, gloomy monodrama, a classic depression fest of a doomed love triangle, to Wyndham's, and will surely delight his legion of fans, though delight is just two steps from misery in a piece that reeks of Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman.
I'm in no mood for Swede-bashing, but I do have a few problems here that are not germane to Henriksson's. He plays an over-sensitive Stockholm physician who falls in love with the wife of a ghastly pastor; she wants him to make out she's diseased so that hubby lays off exerting his marital rights and she can pursue an adulterous affair.
Shocking, you'll agree, and the subject of a famous Swedish novel by Hjalmar Söderberg that playwright Allan Edwell adapted some 30 years ago for another great actor; Henriksson, who is, no mistake, definitely a great actor, and a very youthful-looking 66 year-old, recreated the role six years ago as a birthday present to himse...
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Jenny Harding - 13 May 2013:
Saw it Saturday night and I thought it was excellent. I didn't realise to begin with that it was a one man show until it was obvious that no-one else was going to appear! No problem with sub-titles, thanks to BBC4 we are all used to that now. Enjoyable and absorbing....
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Hjalmer Soderberg (Book)
Martin Witts (for London International Arts Theatre and Tabb AB) (Producer)
Krister Henriksson (Director)
Peder Bjurman (Director)
Allan Edwall (Adaptation)
Pedar Bjurman (Design)
Linus Fellbom (Lighting)
Leif Jordansson (Musical Director)
Karin Hoeg (Costume)
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