The outlines of the adaptation here were not far from Ibsen’s original: the story of a town doctor discovering tainted water at a resort that the town has envisioned as its economic savior. PhotoThe actors came to Flint from theater companies around the country in collaboration with Flint community organizers. Why script a meeting of actors from a town with tainted water when your audience lives in that terrain? A sense of community unity that emerged after the tainted water was first acknowledged has started to fade, some residents said. “I don’t think I can trust it,” she said in the hallway outside the play, as the actors greeted residents.

Source: New York Times June 11, 2017 22:46 UTC