● I MISSED THE DOCTOR when its preview season in Islington was truncated by Covid shutdown. Now it arrives at the Duke of York’s theatre in the West End and the timing feels even more apposite.
Its subject is the tangled contest between hyper-rationalism and religious belief. In a lacklustre era for intellectually satisfying fare in the West End, this one is a zinger. It is Robert Icke’s adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler play , which explored tensions between Jewish and Catholic communities in the early years of the last century.
