Amy Herzog, a playwright, and Sam Gold, a theater director, are having a big spring on Broadway. Herzog is the playwright ofMary Jane, starring Rachel McAdams as a mother caring for a child with chronic illness. Together, they are adaptingEnemy of the People, a Henrik Ibsen play, featuring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli. They also happen to be married, and this marks the first time they're working together. A little over a decade ago, they were at the forefront of new theater talent — Gold came up directing a lot of Annie Baker plays and meticulously spare Off Broadway productions; Herzog did a play with Strong pre-Successionand was nominated for a Pulitzer for4000 Miles. Over the years, they’ve both adapted a lot of Ibsen, and they were drawn to the themes inEnemy of the People, a play they feel captures much of our current political discourse. Jackson McHenry spent time at home and at rehearsal with them as they puzzled their way through changes to Ibsen’s text, which they're rooting in current debates within the left.\xa0 “There’s a darkness to the way the left and right are not matched up with ‘liberal’ and ‘illiberal,’” Gold says, “and that’s an energy I want our production to access.”
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