An Enemy of the People
Opening Night: November 6, 2013
Closing: November 10, 2013
Theater: BAM Harvey Theater
A battle rages in the city. The drinking water is contaminated but—never mind the opinion of a local expert—there’s a tourism industry to protect. Factions form: to tell or not to tell? Studded with contemporary references (renditions of songs by David Bowie and Gnarls Barkley, an excerpt of the incendiary 2008 political manifesto The Coming Insurrection), Ostermeier’s production brings Ibsen’s dark satire to a boil—and, with help from the people, a solitary whistleblower to his knees.
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November 7, 2013
“Get on with the play!” It would normally be startling, to say the least, to hear these words loudly verbalized by an audience member in the middle of an evening at the theater. But the new production of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater violently dismantles the fourth wall in the play’s climactic scene, and all but turns the play into a public referendum on the current state of political and social culture.
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