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Paragon Springs by Steven Dietz.

Paragon Springs is a town with a secret. The "healing waters" of the town's warm springs are a point of civic pride and the tourists who come to bath in the springs are the main source of the town's prosperity. Dr. Thomas Stockman, the chief medical officer of the springs, has discovered a problem. The water is dangerously contaminated. Stockman's discovery plunges the town into confusion as the Mayor undertakes to manage the crisis by discrediting the doctor. In this vibrant, often funny, and highly theatrical re-imagining of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, Steven Dietz puts the lure of capitalism, greed, and self-interest squarely on trial. This is an entertaining and illuminating drama with powerful contemporary resonance. From Flint Michigan to the waters of Southwest Florida, this is a timely play about the human cost of political gamesmanship.

"Steven Dietz has written a masterpiece. Dietz makes his freely adapted version of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People resonate powerfully for our timeconfronting the enduring issues of pollution, cover-ups, whistle-blowing, greed, populism, social responsibility and personal integrity. Dietz unfolds and details the story with a gifted use of language, including a great diatribe against the evils of majority-pandering, full of such passion and truth that it needs to be heard again and again." Shepherd Express.