Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden: When the truth gives courage to anger

An idyllic place. Steam is coming from the sauna, clear water is flowing from the showers. The chapel is ready to receive the next spa guests. But spa doctor Dr. Thomas Stockmann (Viktor Tremmel) feels committed to his professional ethics. When he holds the result of an expert opinion in his hands after the increasing number of cases of illness among the spa guests, discordant sounds disturb the ideal bathing world: the water…