A doctor discovers a health-care emergency and is vilified by politicians, libeled by a corrupt news media and shunned by a gullible citizenry.

Will he stand up for the truth and fight his neighbors and the leaders of his town? Or will he recant his scientific discovery to protect his family and his reputation?

Henrik Ibsen’s classic play may have been staged in 1882 but the story could have been ripped from last week’s headlines.

BETC opens the season with Ibsen’s searing take on human nature, majority rule and one man’s lonely war against a corrupted and hoodwinked society.