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<i>You don't want to go to war on this, Tom. I mean, not now. Not after everything. You don't want to lose more than you can afford.</i><br/><br/>Brad Birch (Pinter Commission winner, 2016) takes Ibsen's <i>An Enemy of the People </i>into the centre of a very modern scandal. How does Tom Stockmann keep both people and press on side when he makes a discovery about the town's prestigious new Spa?<br/><br/>A taut and rigorous adaptation of Ibsen's classic play, <i>En Folkfiende</i> examines the faultlines of municipal power as media, politics and the public good come head to head in a thrilling drama of the conflict between the personal and the public. <i>En Folkefiende </i>premiered at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in May 2016 ahead of a production at the Pleasance, Edinburgh, in August 2016.