Mark Rylance returns to the West Finish this summer season in Dr Semmelweis opening on the Harold Pinter Theatre on 11 July, with previews from 29 June, and operating till Saturday 7 October.

The play, during which Rylance reprises the title position, is written by Stephen Brown with Mark Rylance and is directed by Tom Morris. In a singular theatrical occasion, he and the solid are joined on stage by 10 ballet dancers and the Salome string Quartet. The corporate are: Roseanna Anderson (Marja Seidel/ Baroness Maria-Teresa), Zoe Arshamian (Dance Ensemble), Joshua Ben-Tovim (Hospital Porter/ Loss of life), Ewan Black (Franz Arneth), Chrissy Brooke (Lisa Elstein), Megumi Eda (Aiko Eda), Suzy Halstead (Violet-Could Blackledge), Felix Hayes (Ferdinand von Hebra), Pauline McLynn (Anna Müller), Jude Owusu (Jakob Kolletschka), Oxana Panchenko (Dance Ensemble), Millie Thomas (Agnes Barta), Max Westwell (Hospital Porter/ Loss of life), Amanda Wilkin (Maria Semmelweis), Alan Williams (Johann Klein), Daniel York Loh (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).

“We’re the docs of the trendy age. We’re marching into battle.”

Mark Rylance returns to the West Finish as certainly one of medication’s biggest pioneers, maverick Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis – the person whose analysis may save many hundreds of thousands of moms’ lives.

However what good is a discovery that’s ignored?

In Vienna, a metropolis of inventive and scientific revolution, hundreds of ladies are nonetheless dying in childbirth each yr. Dr Semmelweis dedicates himself to overcoming the invisible killer however to take action he should persuade his colleagues that they themselves are inflicting the deaths of their sufferers.

Damned by an institution that questions his strategies, his motives and even his sanity, Semmelweis is haunted by the ladies he has failed to avoid wasting. Can he lastly persuade the best docs of nineteenth century Europe to just accept his argument – and what’s going to it price him to make an nearly unattainable case?

Following a “smash hit” (Mail on Sunday), sold-out run at Bristol Outdated Vic, this “compelling new drama” (The Telegraph) directed by Tom Morris, that includes stay music by Adrian Sutton and authentic choreography by Antonia Franceschi of Balanchine’s New York Metropolis Ballet, involves the Harold Pinter Theatre within the West Finish for a strictly restricted run this summer season.