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Public Enemy " review by Michael Billington

Young Vic, LondonThere are no rules in theatre. Updating a classic can sometimes work brilliantly, as with Benedict Andrews' Three Sisters at the Young Vic last year. But David Harrower's new 100-minute version of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, directed by Richard Jones, is problematic as well as provocative: there's a nagging discrepancy between Ibsen's late 19th-century plot and point of view, and the 21st-century…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AM on May 14, 2013

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