An Enemy of the People was written by Henrik Ibsen in 1882, and adapted by Mirna Wabi-Sabi in 2022.
In this adapted work, the protagonist is a woman, a lesbian doctor, who faces the same obstacles Ibsen's male protagonist faces:
The denialism which sacrifices public health in the name of profit.
[Adapted by Mirna Wabi-Sabi & Illustrated by Izabela Moreira]
208 pages, perfect bound, dimensions 11x18cm (4.37x 7 inches).
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An Enemy of the People
Despite the stupendous technological advances of recent years, this text by Ibsen shows us how we are still dealing with socio-economic problems incredibly similar to those of the industrial revolution.
"Happily the theory that culture moralizes is only an old falsehood that our forefathers believed in and we have inherited. No, it is ignorance, poverty, ugly conditions of life..."
By transitioning the protagonist, we bring an intersectional and contemporary perspective to the play's narrative, which addresses gender and sexuality in the context of governmental and socio-economic (abuse of) power. Ibsen doesn't give us a prepared answer, he poses stimulating questions that polarization tends to obfuscate.
Embark on this journey through time, which takes us to a strangely familiar place.
Henrik Ibsen was an iconic playwright and theater director, born in 1823 in the municipality of Skien in Norway.
Mirna Wabi-Sabi is a writer, editor, translator and founder of Plataforma9, born in 1988 in Niterói, Brazil.
Izabela Moreira is an illustrator and muralist, born in 1997 in the city of Matinhos, on the coast of Brazil's state of Paraná.
