An Enemy of the People
Written by Henrik Ibsen
Narrated by LibriVox Community
4.5/5
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Cast:
Dr. Thomas Stockmann: Bob Neufeld
Mrs. Stockmann/First Citizen: Elizabeth Klett
Petra: Amanda Friday
Ejlif/Fourth Citizen: Charlotte Duckett
Morten: laurenburwell
Peter Stockmann: Algy Pug
Morten Kiil: Nathaniel W.C. Higgins
Hovstad/Narrator: Libby Gohn
Billings: Kevin W. Davidson
Captain Horster/A Drunken Man: David Olson
Aslaksen: Arielle Lipshaw
Second Citizen: Lynne Thompson
Third Citizen: Tricia G
Audio edited by Libby Gohn
Henrik Ibsen
Born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet, often associated with the early Modernist movement in theatre. Determined to become a playwright from a young age, Ibsen began writing while working as an apprentice pharmacist to help support his family. Though his early plays were largely unsuccessful, Ibsen was able to take employment at a theatre where he worked as a writer, director, and producer. Ibsen’s first success came with Brand and Peter Gynt, and with later plays like A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and The Master Builder he became one of the most performed playwrights in the world, second only to William Shakespeare. Ibsen died in his home in Norway in 1906 at the age of 78.
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Reviews for An Enemy of the People
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This play is a perfect parable for our current corruption in the medical industry and the cowardice of the media, the businesses, the hoi polloi, etc. One lone doctor speaks out, but nobody else will speak of the tannery poison that will kill them all with early, horrible deaths. As a result they take away his practice like they recently took that of a few brave doctors and Giuliani’s law license. The lone doctor argues, “The liberals are the most insidious enemies of freedom,” and “the whole of our life derives its substance from a lie.” He concluded that “the majority are always stupid” and only a few, rare, brilliant individuals ever speak out: Dr. Peter McCullogh, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Luc Montagnier, et al., as recent stellar examples.