An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen’s masterwork finds renewed immediacy in a daring new production from Goodman artistic director Robert Falls. The contamination of a resort town’s water supply sets the stage for a battle involving the town’s respected mayor, Peter Stockmann, and his brother Thomas, a respected doctor. As the brothers become locked in a combative struggle between political wisdom and personal ethics, the economic fate of the community — and the unity of the town’s residents — hangs in the balance.