An Enemy of the People (Herzog)

“Crackling and persuasive… a bitter satire of local politics that soon reveals itself as a slow-boil tragedy of human complacency.” – The New York Times

“Amy Herzog’s adaptation… is smart, sharp and relevant.” – Deadline

“Crunchily position[s] drama and wit, profundity and comedy, alongside one another. This brilliant Enemy of the People is notably funny in both its smarts and pacing.” – The Daily Beast

“Lively… a prescient play about the dangers of populist manipulation by those invested in the status quo.” – New York Daily News

“First staged over 140 years ago, Ibsen’s play feels eerily prescient… it also is a striking portrait of oppositional forces both strategically manipulative and stunningly violent.” – Entertainment Weekly

“A rousing adaptation of a story that carries a discomforting contemporary relevance… at times jarring, at times moving… the play is funnier than you’d expect for such gloomy matters.” – The Guardian

“Urgent and effective… [a] visceral distillation of the 1882 Ibsen drama… Herzog’s sharp dialogue is fluid and identifiably American in vernacular but not littered with anachronisms… Without ever hammering this play’s uncanny modern-day relevance, the new production deftly underscores the parallels of our current ugly political divide; the risks of being a whistleblower; distrust in science by people whose ignorance is manipulated by those in power; trial by public opinion; and a conflict between environmental and economic concerns, all of which will be familiar to 21st-century American audiences.” – The Hollywood Reporter