An Enemy Of The People Play Analysis

An Enemy of the People, directed by Susan Kattwinkel was an entertaining play that addresses issues that have been seen throughout history. There have always been environmental problems and there have always been problems with people trying to solve an issue but stopping soon after they realize it will cost money. Susan Kattwinkel took An Enemy of the People and collaborated with the costumer Margaret Lavigne in a different and interesting way. With the use of projections, they took each scene and designed the costumes to different decades. The play originally was supposed to take place in the late 1800s, which is what they use in the first scene. After the first scene though the characters are costumed to different decades that also had water scandals while the play itself stayed in the same decade. I appreciated the costuming of the daughter Petra Stockman, played by Averyona Gainey. Petra was a free-spirited character and her costumes described that about her. In the last scene Petra was costumed in an outfit that was a dress with pants underneath. This costume showed the strong independent woman that Petra was. It was also noticeable that for the majority of …show more content…
A few of the secondary and minor characters were wearing bright colors, such as yellow and blue, and when they would be moving around in the background of a scene the color of their outfits would catch my eye. So ultimately when I would be trying to concentrate on what the main characters were talking about I found myself focusing more on what was happening in the background. The main characters should always have more bold and bright colors for that particular reason and too many of them were wearing dull or plain colors. It also was frustrating that there really was no color scheme. Some of the characters were wearing black, grey, and white while others were wearing, purple, green, blue, and