An Enemy of the People Opens Oct. 11

Ashland University Theatre opens its 2019-2020 Season of Stories of Courage with Arthur Miller's dramatic adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People on Oct. 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 13 at 2 p.m. in Hugo Young Theatre. Directed by Dr. Teresa Durbin-Ames, Associate Professor of Theatre, the show is being produced in conjunction with The Arthur Miller Society's 13th International Conference which is being held at Ashland University on October 18-20.

Dr. Durbin-Ames explains that she was drawn to Miller’s adaptation of An Enemy of the People because it is a play that asks questions about the value of science, the role of the free and independent press, the democratic right to free speech, and the consequences of fighting for the truth. The answers are not clear as Miller’s characters present audiences with moral conundrums not only of 1950 when he wrote the play, or 1882 when the play was first written, but of today. Read more at autheatredepartment.blogspot.com