Arthur Miller’s stage adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (original title: EN FOLKEFIENDE) from 1882. Dr. Thomas Stockmann, a public-minded doctor in a small town famous for its public baths, discovers that the water supply for the baths is contaminated, causing serious illness among the tourists who are the town’s economic lifeblood. In his effort to clean up the water supply, Dr. Stockmann runs into political cowards, sold-out journalists, short-sighted armchair economists, and a benighted citizenry. His own principled idealism exacerbates the conflict. The well-meaning doctor is publicly labelled an enemy of the people, and he and his family are driven out of the town he was trying to save.
