Stage: An Enemy of the People (NYC)
Adapted by Seth Barrish and K. Lorrel Manning
The Barrow Group; New York City;Â February 6 â March 8, 2010
Shaw once famously pontificated on the transitory nature of the problems in Ibsenâs social dramas, claiming that âA Dollâs House will be flat as dishwater when A Midsummer Nightâs Dream will still be fresh as paint.â This observation has not proven among Shawâs more accurate prognostications. Today, more than a century later, we still find Ibsenâs 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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