The Hoosac Tunnel, which opened for rail traffic in 1875, took over 25 years to build, cost millions of dollars to construct, and claimed more than 100 lives.
Director Julianne Boyd has brought Arthur Miller's version of “An Enemy of the People” to the stage with an abrupt honesty that is absolutely riveting. And it is at a particularly fitting moment in Pittsfield history, given General Electric's decades of contamination of the Housatonic River and Mayor Daniel Bianchi's recent endorsement of a natural gas pipeline that conveys fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania where the drilling has polluted the aquifer and will provide no benefit to the Berkshires.
