An Enemy
of the People

Strawberry Theatre Workshop continues its third season of confrontational works at Richard Hugo House with An Enemy of the People, opening January 18 for a limited run.  Director Greg Carter takes the innovative turn of casting acclaimed local actor Amy Fleetwood in the lead role of Doctor Stockmann, a part constructed by both of the play’s authors to be performed by a man.

The play owes its vitality to two of the greatest names in world literature.  The original author was the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1882), known as the father of the modern drama for masterpieces like A Doll House (1879) and Hedda Gabler (1890).  Ibsen was the idol of the American master Arthur Miller, who took on the task of adapting Enemy for the New York stage in 1950, between his two most important original works, Death of a Salesman (1949) and The Crucible (1953).

“I believed this play could be alive for us because its central theme is, in my opinion, the central theme of our social life today,” wrote Arthur Miller.  “Simply, it is the question of whether the democratic guarantees protecting political minorities ought to be set aside in a time of crisis.”

Richard Hugo House
January 16- February 15, 2014
Thu-Fri-Sat 7:30pm

written by Henrik Ibsen
adapted by Arthur Miller
directed by Greg Carter

performed by
Amy Fleetwood
Jeanette Maus
Tim Hyland
Troy Fischnaller
Jack Greenman
Alan Lason
Kim MacKay
TJ Langley
Walter Dalton
Brandon Whitehead

designed and constructed by
Carl Bronsdon
Reed Nakayama
Jill Beasley
Greg Carter
Holly Heredia

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