Director Sam Gold Strips Down Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People,’ Digging for Relevance for Today’s Audiences

The play stars Jeremy Strong of ‘Succession’ fame and Michael Imperioli of ‘The Sopranos,’ yet the standout performances are delivered by other actors, including David Patrick Kelly, Thomas Jay Ryan, and Victoria Pedretti.

Emilio Madrid
Jeremy Strong in 'An Enemy of the People.' Emilio Madrid

One wonders what Kendall Roy, the ambitious but hapless son of privilege played by Jeremy Strong in the brilliant satirical series “Succession,” would have made of Dr. Thomas Stockmann, the naïve but noble figure Mr. Strong is taking on in a new Broadway staging of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People.”

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