AN ENEMY OF THE PUEBLO
By Josefina López
Directed by ESTRELLA ESPARZA-JOHNSON & MELISSA CHIN-PARKER
Assistant Director JEFFREY T. HEYER
AUGUST 10 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
STUDIO THEATER, THE WESTERN STAGE www.westernstage.com
In “An Enemy of the Pueblo” a curandera (shaman woman) warns the people in the border town of Milagros of the poisoning of the water, but no one wants to believe her because their economic futures depend on the water in the springs attracting the “gringos” back to the town. “Josefina López, famous for her breakout play ‘Real Women Have Curves,’ has taken inspiration from Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People,’ changing one word of the title and shifting the story from frosty Norway to the warmth of a Mexican village called Milagros (miracles) in ‘An Enemy of the Pueblo.’
