UN ENNEMI DU PEUPLE (Um inimigo do povo)
Marco Martins
Premiere on 13 December 2025 at TheatroCirco in Braga (PT)
On 19 December 2024, whilst Portuguese director Marco Martins was planning to adapt Henrik Ibsen’s famous play, An Enemy of the People, the Portuguese national police carried out a controversial operation on Rua do Benformoso, in the heart of Lisbon. Around sixty migrants, mainly from Bangladesh, are forced to stand facing a wall, hands on their heads, for several hours. Numerous videos, filmed by local residents, circulate on social media and spark a heated debate over the legitimacy of this brutal and spectacular intervention.
Working closely with this community, and confronted with these defenceless bodies, stripped of their dignity, Marco Martins questions the way in which the media and political parties of all stripes seize upon these images without ever truly giving a voice to those they depict.
For *An Enemy of the People*, he invites these men and women onto the stage to tell their stories and restore a name, a face, an identity and a humanity to those who have been deprived of them for far too long.
Tarifs
- Plein tarif 31 €
- 65ans+/Carte prof/Groupe10+ 26 €
- -30ans/Pro/Dem.d'emploi 13 €
- Groupe scolaire 8 €
- -15ans 7 €
- Etudiants Conservatoires Art de la parole 5 €
Distributions
Direction and dramaturgy: Marco Martins
Text by Marco Martins, based on testimonies from the entire cast, research by Joana Pereira Bastos and Raquel Moleiro, and the works of Henrik Ibsen, Thomas Ostermeier, Florian Borchmeyer, Elias Canetti, Georges Didi-Huberman, Roger Caillois, Hannah Arendt, Cesare Pavese, Hein De Haas, Claire Touzard, Adília Lopes, Robert Peckham, Marguerite Duras and Pier Paolo Pasolini
With Amin Nurul, Dil Bahadur Ale, Janit Fernandes, Kamal Chowdhury, Kamal Sarder, Niraj Khadka, Rajib Al Mamun, Sabera Parvin, Sharker Nasrin, Shohel Rana
And Rita Cabaço and Rodrigo Tomás
Vocal composition and backing vocals with the cast Rabih Beaini
Original music and sound design by Rabih Beaini
Original music by João Pimenta Gomes
Assistant director and dramaturgical support: Rita Quelhas
Assistant to the assistant director Alexandra Petrovskaya
Lighting design: Nuno Meira
Set design: Isabel Cordovil and João Romão (xxxi.studio)
Set construction ArtWorks
Sound design Vitor Santos
Technical direction: Pedro Moreira
Movement: Lua Carreira and Maria Fonseca
Movement workshop: Hugo Marmelada
Sound workshop: João Pimenta Gomes
Transcription of interviews: Gabriela Dias
Casting research José Pires
Photography: André Príncipe and Beatriz Banha
Texts for the publication: Bárbara Reis, Joana Pereira Bastos, Marco Martins, Matilde C. and Raquel Moleiro
Graphic design of the publication: Pedro Falcão Studio
Translation: Joana Frazão
Administration: Arena Marta Delgado Martins
General and production management: Sérgio Azevedo
Executive production (creation) Hugo Alves Caroça
Executive production (tour) Joana Goldschmidt
Main co-production CCB
Co-production Teatro Municipal do Porto, Theatro Circo / Braga 25 – Portuguese Capital of Culture, Théâtre de Liège – Théâtre d’Europe and Schaubühne
Supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sport | DGArtes – Directorate-General for the Arts, Goethe-Institut Portugal Artworks and PreZero, Embassy of Portugal
This project was co-produced with the support of the PROSPERO NEW platform, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme
