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More power to 'People'.(LIFE - ARTS ETC.)(THEATER)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20060731
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Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Henrik Ibsen's 1882 drama "An Enemy of the People" was written in acid-fueled fire following critical and audience disdain for his play "Ghosts." Olney Theatre's production of the piece is appropriately white-hot. With a noisy and rabble-rousing staging, director Jim Petosa takes a feral, itching-for-a-fight approach to the play, a scathing rant against small-town groupthink and pea-brained poobahs.

Ibsen clearly sympathizes with the outsider he lived away from his native Norway most of his life and those who go against the ...

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