Addressing social issues with drama

The Japan Times Online - Addressing social issues with drama: "The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is often dubbed 'the father of modern drama' for being one of the first to place ordinary people squarely center stage. Forty-four-year-old Yoji Sakate, founder of the Rinkogun theater company, has now created not just an homage to this Scandinavian icon, but a modern Japanese reworking of Ibsen's 114-year-old drama 'An Enemy of the People,' which is playing at the Haiyu-za theater in Roppongi till June 4."