Drama, General & Miscellaneous Drama

Professor Bernhardi

Name: Professor Bernhardi
Author: Arthur Schnitzler
ISBN: 9781840025521

by Arthur Schnitzler, Samuel Adamson

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Overview

"Vienna, 1900. A Jewish doctor prevents a Catholic priest from absolving a dying patient. A witch-hunt ensues." "Arthur Schnitzler's plays and short stories have come to define Vienna at the turn of the last century. Written in 1912, Professor Bernhardi exposes the violent prejudices lurking beneath the city's glittering surface." Samuel Anderson has adapted plays by Chekhov, Ibsen and Gogol. Samuel Adamson's spiky new version of Schnitzler's 'serious comedy' was first presented at the Arcola Theatre in 2005 as part of the Last Waltz Season. The season rediscovered three rarely seen classic plays from Germany and Austria, written at the beginning of the twentieth century, prior to world events changing our perspective on this period forever.

Synopsis

Vienna, 1900. A Jewish doctor prevents a Catholic priest from absolving a dying patient. A witchhunt ensues.Arthur Schnitzler's work has come to define Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. Written in 1912, Professor Bernhardi exposes the violent prejudices lurking beneath the city's glittering surface.

Schnitzler's "serious comedy", in a spiky new version by award-winning playwright Samuel Adamson, made its first appearance in London since 1936 as the third and final production in the The Last Waltz Season at the Arcola Theatre, London in March 2005.

About the Author, Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1930), the Austrian author and doctor, is probably best known for his plays 'La Ronde' and 'Liebelei'. His early years were marked by a particular interest in the emergent science of psychology and his writings anticipate Freud's psychopathological theories.