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An Enemy Of The Pueblo
by Josefina Lopez
Assistant Director Jeffrey T. Heyer
Can a Mexican healer prevent greed from literally poisoning a village on the U.S. Border?
In this reworking of Henrik Ibsen’s classic An Enemy of the People, the village of Milagros (Miracles), Magdalena Del Rio, a traditional healer called a curandera, takes care of her neighbors’ physical and mental health needs for years and is beloved and respected. That is, until she has a vision warning her that the spring on which the village relies will be poisoned. She soon discovers that the political and financial leaders of the community have big plans for turning the village into a tourist attraction as a health resort in order to bring in much-needed U.S. dollars.
Unfortunately, the means by which this big change is being implemented will poison the very waters on which the plan relies. An increasingly heated struggle ensues between Magdalena and the money men and her neighbors begin to turn on her. As if all this were not difficult enough, Magdalena has family troubles and is haunted by a desperate choice she once made to save the village from a vicious gangster. Can she convince the people whom she had brought into the world as a midwife that she knows better than those who promise prosperity? Will her dark secret be used to destroy her and doom the village?
At The Western Stage Mainstage Theatre on the Hartnell College Main Campus, 411 Central Avenue, Salinas, CA. Sept. 27-Oct. 19, 2025. Online tickets and more information: westernstage.com or call (831) 755-6816.