Friday and Saturday, October 12 –13, 2018, 8pm Zellerbach Hall Schaubühne Berlin An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen | Version by Florian Borchmeyer Premieres: July 18, 2012 in Avignon and September 8, 2012 in Berlin Cast/ Creative Team Dr. Stockmann Christoph Gawenda Member of the City Council Konrad Singer Mrs. Stockmann Eva Meckbach Hovstad Renato Schuch Aslaksen David Ruland Billing Moritz Gottwald Morten Kiil omas Bading Direction omas Ostermeier Stage Design Jan Pappelbaum Costume Design Nina Wetzel Music Malte Beckenbach, Daniel Freitag Dramaturgy Florian Borchmeyer Lighting Design Erich Schneider Wall Paintings Katharina Ziemke An Enemy of the People will be performed without an intermission and will last approximately two hours and 30 minutes. Cal Performances’ 2018 –19 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. 19 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Synopsis which includes new forms of dance and musi - Dr. Stockmann discovers that the source of cal theater. e search for a contemporary and drinking and spa water is riddled with patho - experimental theater language that focuses on genic micro-organisms, caused by industrial storytelling and a precise understanding of waste. Stockmann wants to publish the find - texts—both classical and contemporary—is a ings in the newspaper and demands that the unifying element. e repertoire encompasses city council re-route the water pipes. Influential the great dramatic works of world literature citizens and local journalists promise their alongside contemporary plays from interna - support. tionally renowned writers. e more than 100 However, Stockmann’s brother Peter, the world and German premieres during the past councilor of the city, raises some serious con - 19 years have been a key component of the cerns: e economic prosperity of the spa Schaubühne’s work. town will be threatened and the citizens will e search for new dramatic forms has ben - have to bear the brunt of the high repair costs. efited from a lively international exchange that Suddenly the support for Stockmann from the has regularly brought the Schaubühne and its town’s policymakers begins to wane. ey ensemble into close contact with other theatri - spread seeds of doubt about his plans and try to cal traditions. Alongside directors from Berlin cover up the fact of the contaminated water. such as omas Ostermeier, Falk Richter, Marius But Stockmann insists on transparency and von Mayenburg , and Patrick Wengenroth, the intends to go public on the matter. In an all - Schaubühne frequently offers a platform to important speech, he hopes to win the town notable directors from abroad. Currently, pro - over to his way of thinking. He accepts that ductions by Romeo Castellucci, Katie Mitchell, this will cause a permanent ri between him - Rodrigo García, and Angélica Liddell are being self and his brother and that he also runs the shown at the theater. At the same time, the risk of being ostracized by the community. Schaubühne showcases its productions abroad For him the affair has long since ceased to be in more than 100 performances every year: about the polluted health spa; his target is so - whether at large international theater festivals ciety as a whole. like the Festival d’Avignon, the Salzburg Festi - Ibsen’s drama wavers on a fine line between val, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the honesty and fanaticism. What is the potential Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires (FIBA), for transparency in a commercialized society? the Istanbul Festival, and the Territorija Festival in Moscow; or through guest appearances at BIOgRApHIES theaters around the world, including major venues in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Berlin’s Schaubühne theater was founded in Quebec, São Paulo, London, Moscow, Oslo, 1962. Since 1999 it has been led by artistic di - Ramallah, Melbourne, Ottawa, Taipei, Tel Aviv, rector omas Ostermeier. e foundation of Seoul, Rennes, Barcelona, Adelaide, Tokyo, his tenure was laid in the formation of a new Prague, Sydney, Montreal, and Beijing. ensemble of permanently employed actors, who Every spring since 2000, the Festival of essentially have been working together ever International New Drama (FIND) has given since, regularly extended by new appointments. internationally renowned theatermakers the e Schaubühne premieres a minimum of opportunity to show their work at the Schau - ten shows per season alongside a repertoire of bühne. e recent focus has been on artists more than 30 existing productions. Starting who write and direct their own work or sub - from the concept of an ensemble theater, the stantially develop existing dramatic material. actors, dramatic characters, and situations of a Since 2011 FIND has been complemented by play take center stage at the Schaubühne. the FIND plus workshop program, which is a One of the theater’s distinctive features is forum for acting, directing, and dramaturgy a stylistic variety in approaches to directing, students from several European countries. Opposite: Christoph Gawenda in An Enemy of the People . Photo: Arno Declair. 20 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Christoph gawenda (Dr. Stockmann) has Spuren der Verirrten by Peter Handke (Claus been a member of the Schaubühne ensemble Peymann, 2007). From 2008 to 2015 he worked since 2010. He studied acting from 2001 to with the eater Freiburg, where he was in - 2005 at the Conservatory of Music and eater volved in productions including Die Orestie aer in Hannover. In 2004 he took part in work - Aeschylus (directed by Felicitas Brucker, 2009), shops at the State Arts Academy eatre in 1984 aer George Orwell (Tom Kühnel, 2009), St. Peters burg. Aer his studies, Gawenda was and An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen engaged as a member of the Staatsschauspiel (Christoph Frick, 2015). As a guest actor he was Stuttgart, where he worked with directors also involved in Ödipus , adapted from Sopho - including Frie derike Heller, Volker Lösch, cles (eater Freiburg, directed by Feli citas Michael al heimer, Hasko Weber, omas Brucker) and in Timon of Athens by William Danne mann, and Árpád Schilling in produc - Shakespeare (Schauspiel Hannover, directed by tions including Väter und Söhne (directed by Tom Kühnel) during the 2015 –16 season. Friederike Heller, 2006), Intrigue and Love At the Schaubühne: An Enemy of the People (Claudia Bauer, 2009) and e Cherry Orchard by Henrik Ibsen (directed by omas Oster - (Michael alheimer, 2010). meier, 2012), Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Gawenda’s numerous film productions in - Schnitzler (Ostermeier, 2016), and LENIN by clude Wer wenn nicht wir (directed by Andreas Milo Rau & Ensemble (Milo Rau, 2017). Veiel, 2010), Stalingrad (Fedor Bondarchuk, 2012), Meeres Stille (Juliane Fezer, 2013), and Eva Meckbach (Mrs. Stockmann) was born in Auf einmal (Asli Özge, 2014). He also worked 1981 in Seeheim-Jugenheim/Hessen, and has on the audio book production Die hohle Nadel been a member of the Schaubühne ensemble oder der Schatz der Könige Frankreichs (directed since 2006. From 2003 to 2006 she studied act - by Stefan Hilsbecher, 2008). In 2007 he received ing at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She the Kunstförderpreis of the city of Neuss. has also worked on audio books and in radio At the Schaubühne: An Enemy of the People productions. In 2012 she appeared in the movie by Henrik Ibsen (directed by omas Oster - Home for the Weekend (directed by Hans- meier, 2012), Richard III by William Shakes - Christian Schmid). e same year, she received peare (Ostermeier, 2015), Beware of Pity by the award for best actress at the international Stefan Zweig (Simon McBurney, 2015), Pro - theater festival in Szczecin (Poland) for her per - fessor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler (Oster - formance in the role of Erika Roth in Martyr by meier, 2016), History of Violence, based on the Marius von Mayenburg. book by Édouard Louis (Ostermeier, 2018). At the Schaubühne: Demons by Lars Norén (directed by omas Ostermeier, 2010), An Konrad Singer (Member of the City Council) Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (Oster - was born in Leipzig in 1978, and has been meier, 2012), Tartuffe by Molière (Michael a member of the Schaubühne ensemble since alheimer, 2015), Richard III by William the 2016 –17 season. He studied acting at the Shakespeare (Ostermeier, 2015), Beware of Pity Folk wang University of the Arts in Bochum. by Stefan Zweig (Simon McBurney, 2015), In 2005 Singer appeared as a guest in A Mid - Pro fessor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler sum mer Night’s Dream (directed by omas (Oster meier, 2016), and Bang by Marius von Danne mann) at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. Mayenburg (Marius von Mayenburg, world Singer started to work as an actor at the Berliner premiere 2017). Ensemble while finishing his acting studies. ere he acted in plays including Antigone des Renato Schuch (Hovstad) was born in 1980 Sophokles by Bertolt Brecht (directed by George in São Paulo, and has been a member of Tabori, 2006), Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller the Schaubühne ensemble since 2015. He stud - (Peter Stein, 2007), e reeepenny Opera ied acting at the Conservatory of Music and by Bertolt Brecht (Robert Wilson, 2007), and ea ter in Hamburg. Schuch has had guest 20B PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS engagements at the alia eater and the 2014), Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, where he (Ostermeier, 2016), and Richard III by William worked with, among others, Jette Steckel, Shakespeare (Ostermeier, 2015). Andreas Kriegen burg, and Daniel Wahl. From 2009 to 2013 he was a member of the ensemble Moritz gottwald (Billing) was born in 1988 in at the Schauspiel Cologne, where he appeared Halle, and has been a member of the Schau - in Iphigenia by Euripides (directed by Karin bühne ensemble since the 2011 –12 season. He Henkel, 2011), e Waves aer Virginia Woolf studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of (Katie Mitchell, 2011), Night Train aer Frie - Dramatic Arts Berlin. Gottwald first worked derike Mayröcker (Mitchell, 2012, invited to at the Neues eater in Halle in An der Saale the eatertreffen Berlin 2013), and e Last hell gestrandet.