An Enemy of the People

Auteur

Amy Herzog’s plays include Mary Jane, After the Revolution, 4000 Miles (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Obie Award for Best New American Play), The Great God Pan, and Belleville (finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize). She has received commissions from Yale Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Playwrights Horizons. She is a recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill Award, the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and an alumna of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Play Group at Ars Nova and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale. She received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Her adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House starring Jessica Chastain premiered on Broadway in 2023. Her adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People starring Jeremy Strong premiered on Broadway in 2024.

Texte du rabat

Ibsen’s classic tale of one man’s determination to tell the truth despite society’s attempts to silence him takes on a searing contemporary resonance in Amy Herzog’s tense, thrilling adaptation.

When Dr. Thomas Stockmann makes the shocking discovery that the water supply feeding his town’s renowned mineral baths is contaminated, he quickly sounds the alarm, assuming swift action will be taken to protect the public’s health. Instead, to his dismay, the community’s leaders rally to preserve the town’s economic lifeblood over its people, launching a campaign to not only discredit Stockmann, but to utterly destroy his reputation. Ibsen’s parable of one man’s attempt to tell a truth that society does not want to hear takes on new relevance amidst our contemporary climate of political polarization, rampant disinformation, and environmental catastrophe. As she did with her highly acclaimed modernization of A Doll’s House, playwright Amy Herzog delivers a crackling, streamlined *An Enemy of the People *for our time.