Dollhouse
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 19, 2003
Closed Dec 14, 2003
Opened Nov 19, 2003
Closed Dec 14, 2003
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EXTENDED THROUGH DECEMBER 14th
Mabou Mines presents Dollhouse, adapted from Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Director Lee Breuer transforms Ibsen's bourgeois tragedy into high comedy with a deep bite. Breuer turns Ibsen's mythic feminist "anthem" on its head by physicalizing the equation of Power and Scale. Torvald, Rank and Krogstad (the men) are all played by actors whose heights range from 3'4" to 4'5". Nora and Kristine are tall and the maid is a full 6 feet. Nothing dramatizes Ibsen's patriarchal point more clearly than the image of these little men dominating and commanding women nearly twice their size in a "playhouse size" doll house. Eve Beglarian's piano concerti, inspired by Edvard Grieg, accompany each scene, silent movie-like, while Martha Clarke's choreography further deconstructs melodrama's posturing and evolves it into dance.
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Henrik Ibsen's influential drama about Nora Helmer's social awakening is published under two different titles, A Doll's House and A Doll House. That little apostrophe makes a monumental difference: The first version of the title suggests that the heroine owns the house she keeps, while the second indicates that society has taken away her human identity and her ownership rights. Director Lee Breuer's treatment of the play, starting with the cheekily condensed title Dollhouse, goes a step further in implying that men are the real dolls in houses ruled and maintained by women.
In the play as Ibsen wrote it, the male characters function almost as Nora's puppeteers. Torvald Helmer, a bourgeois[...]