An Enemy of the People

When a small town relies on tourists flocking to its baths, will a report of dangerously polluted waters be enough to shut them down? Henrik Ibsen weighs the cost of public health versus a town’s livelihood and skewers the complicity of the masses in his classic and still timely play.

Includes an interview about the Deepwater Horizon, man-made environmental disasters, climate change, and the state of the world’s water supply with Joel K. Bourne Jr., former senior environment writer for National Geographic.

This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in April 2014.

Director: Martin Jarvis

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

Rosalind Ayres as Catherine Stockmann Gregory Harrison as Peter Stockmann

Richard Kind as Dr. Thomas Stockmann

Alan Mandell as Morten Kiil

Jon Matthews as Billing

Alan Shearman as Captain Horster

Josh Stamberg as Hovstad

Emily Swallow as Petra

Tom Virtue as Aslaksen

With various roles played by: Sam Boeck, Julia Coulter, Jeff Gardner, William R. Hickman, Adam Mondschein

Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson, Myke Weiskopf

Sound Designer, Recording and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood 

Sound Effects Artist: Jeff Gardner

Editor: Wes Dewberry.