Stage: An Enemy of the People (NYC)

Adapted by Seth Barrish and K. Lorrel Manning
The Barrow Group; New York City; February 6 – March 8, 2010

Shaw once famously pontificated on the transitory nature of the problems in Ibsen’s social dramas, claiming that “A Doll’s House will be flat as dishwater when A Midsummer Night’s Dream will still be fresh as paint.” This observation has not proven among Shaw’s more accurate prognostications. Today, more than a century later, we still find Ibsen’s social dramas as disturbingly relevant to current social and political concerns as the morning headlines. This has often struck me in attending revivals of these plays, but perhaps never more powerfully than in the new adaptation of Enemy by the Barrow Group.

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