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‘Truly gripping to watch’: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE – Union Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Debbie GilpinLeave a Comment

Opening up Phil Willmott’s ‘Enemies of the People’ Essential Classics season for 2019 is a new production of Arthur Miller’s An Enemy of the People, which is itself adapted from a play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen. The play has a limited run at the Union Theatre, prior to Offenbach’s Can-Can! and Shakespeare’s Othello, as part of the same season.

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‘This story will never be more timely’: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE – Union Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Shanine SalmonLeave a Comment

Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People could have easily been adapted in the last couple of years as a, not at all subtle rebuke to the election of Donald Trump and Flint water scandal. Worryingly Miller’s adaptation was written in the 1950s and Ibsen’s original in 1882. Has nothing really changed?






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NEWS: Full cast is announced for Ibsen’s The Wild Duck at the Almeida in a new version by Robert Icke

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The full cast for the Almeida Theatre production of The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version created by the venue’s associate director Robert Icke, is Nicholas Day, Grace Doherty, Nicholas Farrell, Andrea Hall, Kevin Harvey, Edward Hogg, Lyndsey Marshal, Clara Read and Rick Warden.