Spectacle "A Trial", by Christiane Jatahy

The Brazilian director's new investigation into the boundaries between theatre and cinema is based on a classic text, transformed into a stage trial, with the audience as the jury. Nearly 150 years ago, Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People, the story of a spa town that recovers from the crisis thanks to thermal tourism just when the doctor, Thomas Stockmann, discovers that the waters are contaminated and a health hazard. Insistent on denouncing it against the op…