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Modern producers if an Ibsen play are always faced with the problem that audiences are not likely to be impressed with Ibsen's now largely academic importance. His attack on romanticism and development of realism are now matters of theatrical history. The social commentary in his plays, in this case a defense of feminism, is no longer particularly controversial...
Despite these considerable handicaps, Radcliffe's Idler players are presenting an entertaining production of "A Doll's House." They render Ibsen's sometimes awkward lines as smoothly as possible and manage to enliven a largely humorless play...
Enemy of the People, Arthur Miller's adaptation of Ibsen, is absorbing drama as presented by the H.T.G. Pi Eta Theatre...
Arthur Miller's adaptation of the play is crisp and idiomatic; more important, it rescues Ibsen from the traditional dullness of literal translations. Miller has bent over backwards to play up the timely problem of the individual's rights against the majority in a time of crisis, but in so doing he has been forced to underscore another problem: the inviolability of objective truth. The main thesis of the play is that a scientist may and must stand firm against the animalism and stupidity of mob opinion; when the masses proclaim him an enemy of the people for his adherence...
...experiment was referred to by Ibsen as "a chance to acquire a safeguard to your health while assisting in a test valuable to your country...