Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Resized Ibsen is a must-see
globeandmail.com: "In Mabou Mines DollHouse, there are no small parts, just small actors. Small male actors, to be precise. All the men in director Lee Breuer's extravagantly camp but ultimately resplendent deconstruction of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House are played by actors who are never taller than four feet or so. The women, on the other hand, literally tower above them with an average height of six feet."
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it seems like this ibsen production is embodies the basic beliefs of theatre...there is a suspended yet somehow realistic reality. it's always interesting to see forced perspective and proportion...it brings something so new and so raw to a piece that can be traditionally perfomred lacking meaning that we will get just by looking at the charcters before they even speak...experiementation at in its highest form...i would love to see this production.
I can appreciate the sense of symbolism and the statement that the director is trying to make, but if I see an overly tall Nora compared to an overly short Torvald, I am going to have a really hard time believing this production. As designers, we are asked to make a set fit the story of the play and such a difference in stature does not make this play believable to me.
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