‘An Enemy of the People’ review: Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli duke it out on Broadway
nypost.comwhich last played Broadway 12 years ago, is the sort of not-quite-ripped-from-the-headlines play that could be about any fill-in-the-blank issue that’s on the viewer’s mind that day.
It’s relevant by design.Exhibiting restraint — well, almost — director Sam Gold avoids making obvious modern parallels to needlessly buttress its potency.
David Zinn’s costumes are 19th century chic, and the firm dots has designed a period set of weathered, white wood and evocative oil lamps.We are very much in Norway, until an unfortunate 10-minute “pause” before the second half, when we are very much at a bar in Murray Hill.
More on that daffy diversion later.Who better to take the world’s cruel punches than Strong, who last year wrapped up playing aggrieved Kendall “I’m the eldest boy!” Roy on the TV series “Succession”?As Thomas, Strong looks every inch a martyr, albeit a flawed one who is rich enough that he doesn’t bother learning his own maid’s name.
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