Word: stockmann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play, set originally in Small Town, Norway, involves primarily a philosophical battle, with a single social-reformist intellectual and eventually his society cast at opposing ends. The intellectual, Dr. Thomas Stockmann (Jim Caudle) unearths political corruption within the lifesblood financial enterprise of the town, and with the overwhelming support of the townspeople, confronts the local authorities. But the doctor's brother, Town Mayor Peter Stockmann (Michael Waxenberg), through questionable machinations, reverses the tide of public support, thereby casting the well-intentioned brother as "an enemy of the people...
Performers Betty McNally (Mrs. Stockmann), Jim Caudle (Dr. Stockmann), and Colette Auerswald (Petra Stockmann), each fall prey to a common inconsistency--switching indiscriminately from stereotypes to realism, not having developed the characters sufficiently to manage such a switch. Will Johnston (Captain Horster), Erik Corwin (Morten Kitty), and Roger Rignack (Aslaksen), however, are not inconsistent. They simply choose to not develop their characters--period...