Christiane Jatahy’s A Trial reworks Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People into an interactive contemporary drama in which Wagner Moura’s Thomas Stockmann is judged for exposing contaminated water in a Brazilian spa town. The production turns the audience into participants, blurring fiction and reality while asking whether speaking out can justify the personal and economic damage it causes.

A 12-person audience jury sits on stage before deliberating on Stockmann’s fate, though the reviewer notes uncertainty over whether some jurors may be actors. Moura is praised as charismatic in a dual role as Stockmann and commentator, while filmed appearances by his sons and deceased wife deepen the family conflict; however, the review argues that the moral debate lacks sufficient complexity because the case for concealing widespread poisoning is weak.