An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen
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An Enemy of the People

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Narrator: Richard Kind, Rosalind Ayres, Multiple Narrators

Unabridged: 1 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2014


Synopsis

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 in An Enemy of the People.

Also includes an interview with Joel K. Bourne, Jr., former senior environment editor for National Geographic, on man-made environmental disasters, climate change, and the state of the world's water supply.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, featuring: Richard Kind, Gregory Harrison, Rosalind Ayres, Emily Swallow, Josh Stamberg, Tom Virtue, Alan Shearman, Alan Mandell, and Jon Matthews. Additional voices by Sam Boeck, William Hickman, Adam Mondschein, Julia Coulter, and Jeff Gardner. Directed by Martin Jarvis.

An Enemy of the People is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

About Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) was a major nineteenth-century Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet. He is often referred to as “the father of prose drama” and is one of the founders of modernism in the theater. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder. Several of his plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theater was required to model strict mores of family life and propriety. Ibsen’s work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

Norwegian Henrik Ibsen’s The Enemy of the People, first produced in 1882, is what we might now call a “whistleblower” tale. Dr. Stockman, brother of the town’s “Burgomaster,” Peter, investigates the source of the resort town’s fortunes, The Baths, and discovers it is being polluted, and for the heal......more

Goodreads review by Fatima

یکی از پر معنی ترین نمایشنامه هایی بود که تا به امروز خوانده بودم , هر قسمت نمایش واقعیت های جوامع امروزی را فریاد میزد و به قدری زیاد بود که میشد میلیون ها مورد امروزی را با آن مقایسه کرد و مشابه خواند ... در جاهای مختلفی از نمایشنامه طریقه ی خریدن هدف و فکر و سو استفاده از مردم آگاه را نشانمان مید......more