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A Trial: After An Enemy of the People review – Wagner Moura upends Ibsen and keeps us guessing
['Arifa Akbar']
The Guardian
It starts off as such but minutes later, the celebrated Brazilian screen actor Wagner Moura, playing Ibsen’s Thomas Stockmann, seemingly breaks character to talk to us directly.
View image in fullscreen Family drama … A Trial: After An Enemy of the People.
View image in fullscreen Uncertain ground … the jury of A Trial: After An Enemy of the People.
Moura is an immensely charismatic force on stage, at ease with his fissured role – as Thomas and an observing commentator of Thomas.
Ultimately, it is this traditional element, of turbulent family drama, that grips the most.