AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE - By The CATALYST

An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play. Adapted and Directed by Adria C. Le Boeuf for The Catalyst Theatre Company The new startup incubator BioInnovate is ready for their first major success story. The Emote, a novel brain-machine interface to treat depression and other mental illnesses, is just finishing clinical trials when the outspoken and charismatic Dr. Elise Stockmann, staff scientist, reveals what she thinks may be very serious behavioural side-effects. At first hailed as excellent news, considering the product hasn't yet gone to market, soon everyone in the small entrepreneurial community has turned on her, trying to keep her quiet for the good of the company--and for the good of everyone's wallet. This adaptation of Ibsen's classic play about the failings of the majority is here transposed into our time and set in our hypothetical backyard. If we were stockholders, would we want Dr. Stockmann kept quiet? « The majority is never right. That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent person can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? » Filmed at the Grange de Dorigny, Lausanne, May 4th, 2014 as part of the Festival Fecule. Filming and editing by Olivier Werro of Realisation Werro. Cast: Friederike Bienert (Dr. Elise Stockmann) Kyle Gustafson (Peter Stockmann) Diego Cortez (Nate Morten) Isabel Schmid (Petra Müller) Yuliy Schwartzburg (Alex Hovstad) Giulia Beanato (Roberta Billing) Diego Gonzalez (Gerald Aslaksen) Katie Ridout (Ethel Morten)