Drama
Just What The Doctor Ordered
By: Isoceles Theatre
Friday 14th March 2025: 7:30pm
Murder, Just what the Doctor Ordered
In Edinburgh Between 1827 and 1828 science and murder cling together in a dance of death. Sixteen people are slaughtered by Burke and Hare and the devil and all his works prowls the streets of “Auld Reekie“.
Dr Robert Knox, scientist, doctor, and anatomist supreme, waits in Surgeons Square to buy bodies for the sake of advancing medical knowledge. His door is chapped, a body is delivered, money is paid – no questions asked. A trail of terror leads from West Port to the dissection table of Robert Knox.
Murder will out and a price must be paid, even by the anatomist supreme. Doctor Knox will have to pay that price.
This show was specially commissioned by The Royal College of Surgeons as part of the celebrations for the re-opening of the Surgeons Hall Museum.
