Aftershock
“News in this town”
“Boys, there is going to be news in this town!”
Production dossier · Ballerup 2017
An Enemy of the People
“Boys, there is going to be news in this town!”
Synopsis
“The miraculous springs that cost such a fortune to build, the whole Health Institute, is a pesthole!”
“Now let the baboons running this town call me a lunatic! Now they’d better watch out. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!”
“The individual really must subordinate himself to the overall — to the authorities who are in charge of the general welfare.”
I
The pressure chamber
“The trouble is that certain men are never satisfied to share, Catherine.”
“Changed the soul of this town”
“The springs, Mr. Hovstad, our wonderful new springs. They’ve changed the soul of this town.”
“Satisfied to share”
“The trouble is that certain men are never satisfied to share, Catherine.”
II
The assembly
“Society, Captain, is like a ship — every man should do something to help navigate the ship.”
“The overall”
“The individual really must subordinate himself to the overall — to the authorities who are in charge of the general welfare.”
“The soul of this town”
“The springs, Mr. Hovstad, our wonderful new springs. They’ve changed the soul of this town. Mark my words.”
III · The feed
“The miraculous springs … is a pesthole!”
“You know the filth up in Windmill Valley? That stuff that has such a stinking smell? It comes down from the tannery up there, and the same damn poisonous mess comes right out into the blessed, miraculous water we’re supposed to cure people with!”
“Blind rats”
“Now let the baboons running this town call me a lunatic! Now they’d better watch out.”
IV
Exile and aftermath
“You are going your own way, Thomas, and that simply can’t go on in a well-organized society.”
“Exile”
“My dear Thomas, this is exactly what you will never learn.”
“The truth first”
“Things to work and fight for, Peter! Without that you’re dead.”
Credits and collaboration
Produced in Ballerup in Nordic collaboration with Nordic Black Theatre (Oslo) and Södra Community (Malmö), alongside ACT’s Denmark-based ensemble.
Direction
- Director
- George Mungai
- Assistant Director
- Mine Nilay
- Dramaturg
- Jonas Jarl
- Artistic Director
- Michael Omoke
Production
- Wardrobe
- Dana Stojakovic
- Production Manager
- Hind Charafi
- Production Coordinators
- Kevin Yuven · Anna-Marie Skanborg
- Footage & Montage
- Sawsan Halitim
Ensemble
- Actors
- Alice Knuth · Zach Khadudu · Evelyn Rasmussen · Victoria Seest · Abdul Haidi · Mzi Sipamla · Camilla Rosenkrands · Isac Victor · Shasyaa Vaishnav · Kevin Mbugua