The playwright and director Miguel del Arco, whose works La violación de Lucrecia [The Rape of Lucrece] and Juicio a una zorra, [Trial of a Whore] we have seen at the Lliure, accepts the challenge we have set him and now takes on a classic from the nineteenth century which is extremely relevant today. The abuse of power, corruption, hypocrisy, manipulation of the masses and the concept of the common good are just some of the themes in this show starring Pere Arquillué.

'Enemy of the people' or Hostis publicus is a term that was used by Roman law to compare someone with an enemy soldier fighting against the Republic with hand weapons. But who is an enemy of the people? Who accuses them of being such? And what is the process that leads them to be accused? In Ibsen, the enemy of the people is Thomas Stockmann. He is a doctor- a scientist who discovers that the basis of his village's economy, the water in the baths that are its main source of income, contains bacteria that are harmful to health. Stockmann then decides to warn everyone. But what comes first, the truth and public health, or the economic system that sustains their lives? In 1883, Ibsen highlighted many of the potential ills of capitalist society, and left all these big questions open, which retain all their meaning today more than ever.