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An Enemy of the People Summary 1/3
Okay, so there are way too many pictures to share in 1 post, so I decided to separate them.
These are all the pictures released prior to the play. Below I linked the sources for each of them (hopefully).
Second post will be the ones from the actual production and third is all the great videos/trailers!
Bonus:
Nottingham Playhouse has unveiled its 2019 autumn season, including a specially-adapted, gender-swapped production of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” starring Alex Kingston. Celebrated for 12 years in renowned US drama series ER, award-winning actress, TV, and film star Alex Kingston will take on the lead of Dr. Stockmann in “An Enemy of the People” in September 2019. The timely and gripping play about fake news, whistle-blowers, and the corruption of power is set in contemporary Norway where Dr. Stockmann discovers the town's famous spa waters are poisoned. British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz has specially adapted An Enemy of the People for Nottingham Playhouse. Lenkiewicz is also an esteemed screenwriter whose credits include co-writing the Oscar winning “Ida” and “Colette,” which starred Keira Knightley. Adam Penford, artistic director at Nottingham Playhouse, said, "I am thrilled that An Enemy of the People is our headline drama this autumn, following on from the major success of The Madness of George III in November. It's a play I've had my eye on for a few years as the themes it explores feel so current; it's hard to believe Ibsen wrote it 130 years ago. Alex Kingston is a tremendous actor with a powerful stage presence and global profile. I was delighted by how passionately she felt about both the play and the character and was excited about coming to Nottingham. Likewise, Rebecca Lenkiewicz is one of the most renowned British playwrights and her new incisive adaptation brings the play bang up-to-date so it has the freshness and mass appeal of a contemporary thriller. An Enemy of the People is one of the greatest dramas ever written and audiences will be gripped by its dramatic narrative and the mirror it holds up to our society." Speaking about her role in “An Enemy of the People,” Alex Kingston said, "I am really excited about participating in the 2019 season at Nottingham Playhouse. The lead main character was written for a man and has always been played by a man; in this version it is being adapted to allow me to play this role. The piece is really timely - there are a lot of shadows within the play that echo what we are going through right now - the Flint water scandal in Michigan, the vilification of Hillary Clinton, the general state of democracy and post Brexit Britain - there are a lot of themes that will resonate for the audience in this play."
An “Enemy of the People,” directed by Adam Penford, runs from September 13-28, 2019.
Alex Kingston Coming to Nottingham Playhouse in Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People”
Alex Kingston is to star in a gender-swapped production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People as part of Nottingham Playhouse’s latest season.
Kingston will take on the lead role of Dr. Stockman, which was originally written as a man, in the specially-adapted version of the play by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
An Enemy of the People, which is directed by Nottingham Playhouse artistic director Adam Penford, runs from September 13-28.
Kingston said: “The lead main character was written for a man and has always been played by a man; in this version it is being adapted to allow me to play this role.
“The piece is really timely – there are a lot of shadows within the play that echo what we are going through right now – the Flint water scandal in Michigan, the vilification of Hillary Clinton, the general state of democracy and post Brexit Britain – there are a lot of themes that will resonate for the audience in this play.”
An Enemy of the People by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Directed by Adam Penford September 13 to 28, with press night on September 17 [x]
