8 / 10
The whole thing has a contemporaneity that makes it feel urgent, a tribute both to Ibsen’s prescience and to Ostermeier’s rigorous analysis of its relevance. If the ending is depressing, that is because it sums up so precisely the state of things.
8 / 10
Ibsen goes punk in German director Thomas Ostermeier’s shockingly audacious, fourth-wall-smashing An Enemy of the People. Adapted by Ostermeier and Florian Borchmeyer for the Berlin Schaubühne in 2012, and translated by Duncan Macmillan, it’s an eerily apt commentary on our current woes – and, thanks to a dynamite set-piece, is unlike anything else you’ll see in the West End right now.
Tickets are available from £65 for An Enemy Of The People at the Duke Of York's Theatre! Find out how to get discount tickets here!
Thomas Ostermeier’s bold reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, originally produced at Schaubühne Berlin, has extended due to public demand, now completing its run on 13 April.
Making his West End debut, celebrated director Thomas Ostermeier‘s iconoclastic production of An Enemy of the People plays at the Duke of York’s Theatre is now playing for a strictly limited run.
German auteur Thomas Ostermeier's production is not as radical as it thinks it is
All new rehearsal photos have been released of Matt Smith and more in An Enemy of the People, opening next month at the Duke of York's Theatre. Check out the photos here!
40 stalls seats will be released for £40 for every performance of Thomas Ostermeier's bold reimagining of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, originally produced at Schaubühne Berlin.
Check out a photo from the first day of rehearsal for An Enemy of The People starring Matt Smith & more at The Duke of York's Theatre.
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