![]() ![]() ![]() In Hatcher’s play, the doctor is middle-aged his chances have clearly passed him by. The book was written in journal form, the private ruminations of a lonely virgin of 33. The doctor lies, he schemes, he plans the perfect murder. Glas’s obsession with the young woman puts him into moral and existential distress. When the beautiful young wife comes to the doctor with a fervent but unusual request - to help her keep her odious, reviled husband out of her bed - all the pent-up passion of the years is unleashed. The man is an even bigger prig, a parish priest who is, by all accounts, unsightly and repugnant. Now, he’s obsessed with another man’s wife. Glas,” a new stage adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher, presents the titular 19th century medic as a supercilious prig who longs for love (he only had it once, fleetingly, some time ago). Glas.īased on an acclaimed, but at first controversial Swedish novel (1905, by Hjalmar Söderberg), “Dr. The Hippocratic Oath (“First, do no harm”) takes a turn toward the Hypocritic in the hands of Dr. ![]() Glas” in the play at North Coast Repertory Theatre. ![]()
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