A new adaptation of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” also starring Michael Imperioli, beams directly in to 2024—and a plea to support those confronting stifling authoritarianism.
and this adaptation, directed by Sam Gold know how to crunchily position drama and wit, profundity and comedy, alongside one another. This brilliantis notably funny in both its smarts and pacing, and even its later gathering darkness—when Stockmann is viciously trounced and isolated by his townsfolk—is studded with light, and the certainty of his self-preservation.
The difference between Stockmann and Kendall—and this is the pleasure of watching a lean, focused Strong perform on the Circle in the Square stage—is that the wit and off-kilter feel Herzog and Gold have brought to her reimagining of the play means we see Strong’s Stockmann as a purely sympathetic, quietly insistent man of reason, desperately and futilely trying to rouse his neighbors from their fiercely embraced, rabidly expressed ignorance.
Not only do they not want to hear what Dr. Stockmann has to say, they want to cut off any means he has to say it, whether it be in the local newspaper, or in the town square itself. They are, like today’s crusading conservatives, bullies who have learned the language of victimhood to weaponize against those whose dissent and agency they are seeking to crush and destroy.
This is where being in Circle in the Square works neatly itself; performed in the round, the audience itself becomes the townspeople watching a fight between the quiet and good and small-scale boorishness and venality as if we were spectators at a prize-fight.
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