Stage: An Enemy of the People (BAM)

An Enemy of the People; The Schaubühne/Brooklyn Academy of Music; November 6-10, 2013

 Thomas Ostermeier is one of the few German (or continental) stage directors whose productions are invited to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the November production of his recent An Enemy of the People is his third there, all Ibsen plays, preceded by Hedda Gabler in 2006 and Nora (A Doll House), in 2004. By contemporary German standards there is nothing particularly shocking about the many adjustments, some powerful, some indifferent, some foolish, that Ostermeier has made in each of these adaptations, but within the context of American production, especially of Ibsen, they seem radical if not revolutionary.

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