Programme artifact
An Enemy of the People in Malmö
A four-day process of readings, group work, director’s exploration, and public preparation around Ibsen/Miller.
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Production dossier · Ballerup 2017
An Enemy of the People
A Town Learns to Lie
A town protects itself from the truth.
Municipal noir
The stage is a room that knows how to behave. Papers are handled. Voices stay measured. The furniture remains respectable.
Then the news arrives — and the town begins the slow work of protecting itself from what is true.
Chapter I
The News Enters the House
Pressure line
“Boys, there is going to be news in this town!”
Chapter II
The Room Begins to Turn
The room does not explode. It adjusts itself. A chair moves. A body leans back. A face calculates. Civic life becomes choreography.
Chapter III
The Majority Arrives
The truth is no longer information. It becomes danger.
Chapter IV
The House Pays the Price
When public life turns against truth, punishment does not remain public. It enters the house.
Chapter V
The Town Applauds Itself
The curtain call is kept here not as a decorative ending, but as an archive image: the ensemble after carrying a civic wound into the public room.
Malmö / 10–13 April 2017
The Malmö Civic Laboratory
Before the town learned to lie, a Nordic room gathered to ask who gets to speak.
The workshop and conference extended An Enemy of the People beyond performance into a civic exchange between ACT Copenhagen, Södra Community Theatre Malmö, and Nordic Black Theatre Oslo: readings, group work, director’s exploration, public discussion, and a conference on representation, access, and community theatre.
Michael Omoke
“When the doors don’t open, you have to create your own doors and open them yourself.”
Conference artifact
Share Experience in Malmö
A Nordic community-theatre conference on representation, access, exchange, and who gets to enter the public cultural room.
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Workshop & Conference Trailer
The trailer opens the wider Malmö frame: not only a production process, but a Nordic conversation on access, representation, and community theatre.
Video archive
Speaker Archive
Selected talks from the Malmö conference, held in dialogue with the production’s larger civic question: who is represented, who enters the room, and who gets heard?
01
Niels Righolt
Director, CKI — The Danish Centre for Arts & Interculture
How Community Art Can Be a Tool for Change
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George Mungai
Theatre director
Director’s Concept — An Enemy of the People
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Keenan Allen
Conference speaker
Transnationals and the Migrant’s Cultural Capital
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Original playbill
Kept here as an origin artifact from the company’s early public chapter, the 2017 An Enemy of the People playbill carries the production in ensemble form: direct, urgent, and unmistakably of its first decade.
Credits and collaboration
Produced in Ballerup in Nordic collaboration with Nordic Black Theatre (Oslo) and Södra Community (Malmö), alongside the company’s Denmark-based ensemble.
Direction
- Director
- George Mungai
- Assistant Director
- Mine Nilay
- Dramaturg
- Jonas Jarl
- Artistic Director
- Michael Omoke
Production
- Wardrobe
- Dana Stojakovic
- Production Manager
- Hind Charafi
- Production Coordinators
- Kevin Yuven · Anna-Marie Skanborg
- Footage & Montage
- Sawsan Halitim
Ensemble
- Actors
- Alice Knuth · Zach Khadudu · Evelyn Rasmussen · Victoria Seest · Abdul Haidi · Mzi Sipamla · Camilla Rosenkrands · Isac Victor · Shasyaa Vaishnav · Kevin Mbugua