by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted for broadcasting by Norman Ginsbury
Characters
Scene: A small spa in Norway
Produced by Barbara Burnham

Very few of Ibsen's plays can be said to date as long as human nature remains fundamentally unchanged. This is particularly so in the case of An Enemy of the People, which is as significant today as it was when it was written in 1882. To some extent this play is autobiographical in that Dr. Stockmann, who hoped to serve his fellow townsmen by telling the truth and was in consequence denounced as an enemy of the people, may be roughly identified with Ibsen himself, who had aroused such virulent hostility with his previous play Ghosts.