Nov 01—06, 2011
Mabou Mines Dollhouse
Mabou Mines
The dollhouse is a man’s world and only doll-like women, who allow their men to feel grand, can hope to live in it. You may think you’ve seen Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, but acclaimed director and MacArthur Fellow Lee Breuer gives this world of patriarchy and pretense a new twist—the all-powerful male characters are less than 4 ½ feet tall and the women 6 feet tall. Here, Ibsen’s feminism is metaphorically rendered as a parable of scale, and this unusual take on the physical world of the play results in startling insights and unexpected humor. This production is perhaps the most celebrated among a range of experimental, contemporary interpretations of classic works.
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Venue
Cutler Majestic Theatre
219 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116
“Ibsen will never be the same. Would that all classics could be so searchingly but lovingly re-examined.”
— London Times