WIse words in Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People'

Ibsen's 'The Enemy of the People' has been running at Dublin's Gate. Now in its last nights, it is well worth seeing.

Adapted by Arthur Miller the play tells the story of a town in Norway which has just begun to in win fame and fortune for the supposed health-giving properties of its spring waters.

When local GP Dr Stockman discovers that the waters are poisoned he is shocked to find that instead of being rewarded for his efforts to bring this secret to light he is attacked, denounced and shunned by the authorities and his fellow townspople.

How those in power control and deceive people and how their sily underings play the field to suit their own pathetic lives.

Some great lines, the language and gestures that people in authority use to destroy and patronise those who have the courage to object to and challenge so much of the nastiness and indeed, madness of all authorities.

'Enemy of the People' great play.