An Enemy of the People Tickets

Funny, clever and extremely honest - an articulate tale of the problems found in todays society. The whole cast were amazing and I adored seeing Matt Smith in his element.

The main piece of advice is to read the original play and have a question ready on why the liberal elite are to blame for the state of politics and the break down of society - as it will come in useful.

A powerful re rendering of the Ibsen play in a modern context. Fantastic performance from matt Smith

A very interesting use of Ibsen's subject and message but perhaps misleading for anyone expecting the Ibsen play. By transposing so much to our times, which at least do have similar issues in a different context, the original historical context is lost. The audience participation is clever at the end of the first half, but dominates the second half. Great actors and sets.

There are two ways to eat a banana. Whoever put this performance of An Enemy of the People together adheres to the one in which you peel the banana, throw away the fruit and eat the skin. Great chunks of the play were thrown away and much of the little that remained were, for no apparent reason, inverted. Instead of a deeply loving and concerned family man, knowledgeable of the latest scientific discoveries (microorganisms had only recently been discovered when Ibsen wrote the play), and one keen to apply new knowledge and new methods, Dr. Stockmann was here transformed into a selfish, monomaniac lunatic with a shallow grasp of relevant reality. His puerile rant at the public meeting, entirely alien to the original, carried all the conviction of a 3rd class undergraduate essay or the baying of the ignorant mob – the very kernel of closed-minded ignorance, in fact, that he was in the original actually attacking. And just to make sure this impression stuck, the director (or whoever) cut his great closing speech entirely. That, oddly, was not quite the let-down it might have been: this production was punctuated with curious musical interludes that cunningly each time relieved the dramatic tension. Hence, excising the dramatic climax of the play left one feeling not so much disappointment at something valuable lost as incomprehension at something that never was actually found. An Enemy of the People is timeless and can successfully be transformed to the 20th C (e.g., the great Urquhart TV production in the 1980s) but this version failed monumentally to achieve that.

While there's a bit of a rant against modern society- from every angle- this still manages to be entertaining. Come with tour opinions sharpened..

It seemed like the show had all components to be a success, but acting somehow was not authentic and it didn’t resonate with me personally. This is of course my personal opinion