An Enemy of the People @Circle in the Square Theatre
Samantha M. Lopez Samantha M. Lopez

An Enemy of the People @Circle in the Square Theatre

Adapted and reconceptualized by couple Amy Herzog (playwright) and Sam Gold (theater director), Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s classic 1882 play is a visceral, emotional and honest look at how society deals with politically inconvenient truths and community pressure. The play concerns Dr. Thomas Stockmann (Jeremy Strong), a widowed physician who has moved back to his hometown with his daughter Petra (Victoria Pedretti) as appointed medical director of the new Baths which are set to open in warmer weather as a booming business for the town. After discovering through secretly carried out tests that the water supply for the baths is polluted by the runoff from local tanneries and is teaming with bacteria, he feels a duty to public safety and his hometown to inform before it’s too late.

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