A Doll's House
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 20, 2011
Closed Jul 31, 2011
Opened Jul 20, 2011
Closed Jul 31, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Nora Helmer has everything an affluent housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, a bright future. When a carelessly buried secret rises to the surface, her well-calibrated, though artificial, domestic ideal begins to crumble. Terrified by this new reality, Nora must choose between outward perfection and inner truth. Still bracingly relevant, Ibsen's masterpiece, in a striking contemporary translation, offers no safer conclusions today than when it stormed stages of 19th-century Europe.
Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation) directs a cast that includes Oscar Isaac (Shakespeare in the Park's
Romeo and Juliet) as Krogstad, Hamish Linklater (Shakespeare in the Park's The Merchant of Venice, The New
Adventures of Old Christine) as Torvald, Matthew Maher (Gone Baby Gone) as Doctor Rank, Lily Rabe (The
Merchant of Venice, WTF's Crimes of the Heart) as Nora, and Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under, Aunt Dan and
Lemon, WTF's The Landscape of the Body) as Kristine.
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More coltish than kittenish, Lily Rabe might seem an odd choice to play Ibsen's master manipulator Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's
A Doll's House, now playing at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. But under Sam Gold's clear-eyed direction, Rabe really turns on the charm, entwining Nora's stodgy banker husband Torvald (a wonderfully understated Josh Hamilton) in her supplicating arms and, just as often, her seemingly endless legs.
In this nuanced, unfusty translation by Paul Walsh, Ibsen's s characters tend to emerge more clearly, especially our protagonist. This Nora not only enjoys the game, but she's fully in control. As much as she needs a steady drip of cash (to pay back the ill-advised[...]