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Amy Herzog and Sam Gold Are Just a Couple of Ibsen Lovers
Early in their relationship, they decided never to work together. But neither could resist adapting Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People for Broadway.
There’s a grand piano (Herzog’s father plays when he visits), a row of plants by a windowsill, a drawing of Gold being held up like he’s flying—made by Allison Bechdel before the premiere of the musical Fun Home, which he directed. They rose as stars of New York theater in the aughts and 2010s — he directing the plays of Annie Baker, then restaging a series of classics with big-name talent (Sally Field, Glenda Jackson, Daniel Craig twice over); she with precisely observed dramas that draw from both her life and questions of political engagement. Herzog comes from a solidly left activist family but has written about how beliefs that seem correct in one context may look out of date in another — her play After the Revolution was inspired by the discovery, in 1999, that her paternal grandfather, whom she describes as basically a Stalin apologist, had passed information to the Russians during World War II.
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