Henrik & Heidi & Anton & Amy
Why and how Amy Herzog and Heidi Schreck took time from writing their own plays to adapt ‘An Enemy of the People’ and ‘Uncle Vanya,’ respectively, for Broadway.
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Why and how Amy Herzog and Heidi Schreck took time from writing their own plays to adapt ‘An Enemy of the People’ and ‘Uncle Vanya,’ respectively, for Broadway.
Now onstage at Seattle Rep in Ibsen’s unsettling classic, she talks about the things you can and can’t convey onstage.
What gives this 19th-century Norwegian’s plays their lasting power? ‘Power’ is the operative word.
Alongside popular shows by Shakespeare, Coward, Ibsen and Garson Kanin is a seldom-seen melodrama by David Belasco.