{"id":5036,"date":"2020-02-07T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bracketyackrc.wpengine.com\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2020-02-07T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T13:00:07","slug":"theatre-rc-presents-an-enemy-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5036","title":{"rendered":"Theatre RC Presents: An Enemy of the People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Charissa Roberson<\/em><\/p>\n

With the spring semester barely a month underway, Theatre RC is already deep in rehearsals for their upcoming show, \u201cAn Enemy of the People,\u201d by Henrik Ibsen (reimagined by Rebecca Lenkiewicz).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This play focuses on Dr. Theresa Stockmann, portrayed by junior Katarina Shaner, and other members of a small Norwegian town. When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the town\u2019s spa baths are contaminated, she must decide whether to reveal the truth, even though it might ruin her town, or keep quiet in order to preserve the peace. \u201cThis play is set in the 1800s, and it\u2019s Norwegian,\u201d says junior Adeline Huggins, who is both the assistant director and dramaturge for the show. \u201cSo I\u2019m trying to relate it to what is going on today, both nationally and locally in Salem.\u201d Huggins says that some of the environmental issues discussed in the play are strikingly similar to events that occurred in Salem when a tannery polluted a nearby river, making the story extremely relevant to local audiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To prepare this play, Theatre RC has been working with several other departments across the college, including history and environmental studies. Dr. Laura Hartman, who also will be participating in a talkback before the show\u2019s opening night, spoke with the entire cast about the environmental aspects of the play and how to hold constructive conversations about them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAn Enemy of the People\u201d is both a timely and poignant play, and it is made even more so by the particular design of its set. The audience is on-stage, positioned on either side of the performers in a tennis court-style set-up. \u201cI\u2019ve never acted in anything like that,\u201d says Tess Weidenkopf, who plays the editor of the town\u2019s newspaper. \u201cIt\u2019s good to have people so close, to really feel it.\u201d Shaner agrees, \u201cIt\u2019s fun that it\u2019s less particular and more open to interpretation,\u201d she says.\u00a0 Shaner also discusses the difficulty of playing her character, Dr. Stockmann, the woman who is at the center of the play\u2019s events. \u201cShe is very cerebral, but frenetic. It\u2019s been really interesting, really difficult, but very fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An Enemy of the People will premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 19, running until Feb. 22. Between the unique staging, thought-provoking material, and several opportunities for audiences to be involved in the discussion, this play is an experience not to be missed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Charissa Roberson With the spring semester barely a month underway, Theatre RC is already deep in rehearsals for their upcoming show, \u201cAn Enemy of the People,\u201d by Henrik Ibsen (reimagined by Rebecca Lenkiewicz).\u00a0 This play focuses on Dr. Theresa Stockmann, portrayed by junior Katarina Shaner, and other members of a small Norwegian town….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}