David Benedict: Identity politics are stirring up division. Someone call The Doctor
Juliet Stevenson in The Doctor at the Almeida. Photo: Manuel Harlan
Several moments in Robert Icke’s production of The Doctor benefit from accidental timing. Icke’s play opened the same week that the so-called “Jewface” row erupted via an open letter to The Stage. Icke’s play is, of course, not an intended riposte but it certainly reads as a shockingly cogent response.
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