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‘An Enemy Of The People’ Broadway Review: Jeremy Strong & Michael Imperioli In Battle For Our Times
Deadline Broadway review of 'An Enemy Of The People' starring Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli and Victoria Pedretti.
The play’s action takes place in a sort of rectangular pen, with lovely white calf-high walls enclosing the actors, almost as if they were performing in one of those shallow newly constructed mineral baths that promise to the town’s rich men richer and provide a steady stream of tourism-related work for the humbler denizens. With friends like those, the allegory of the tainted water supply as a science-under-threat stand-in for climate change, Covid, vaccines, and other modern controversies is easily grasped, and in less talented hands, the message-conveyance could seem cringy at best, play-killing at worst. Having lived through years of the Right’s demeaning of Dr. Fauci as some egg-headed villain, it might be hard for today’s audience to refrain from yelling a well-timed “Go poodles!,” but the scene, both as written by Ibsen, adapted by Herzog and staged by Gold, hints at something deeper than us vs them: the not-so-subtle disregard for democratic principles when the bacteria hits the fan.
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