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Variety: Laurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper, recent Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell and Condola Rashad will star this spring in “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” a new play by Lucas Hnath that debuts this spring in a Broadway staging produced by Scott Rudin.
I really like A Doll’s House and specifically the end because she realizes what she has been stuck and is finally leaving her tethers. Now I want to see what this sequel does with her returning. She did leave her husband and home and especially her kids. They grew up with just a father that probably wasn’t the best role model but then they had no mother because she left them. So how are they going to feel when she returns. I am curious about how long she has been away and how old her kids are now. That can bring a lot to the show. If they are older than they are more independent and have a lot more feelings for themselves about what she did, however if they are still a little bit younger then you have the problem of them forgetting and solely learning under her not so good husband. I will definitely be seeing this show in some way or another.
I will admit I don’t have a lot to offer this comment in terms of content because I have never seen the Doll House, however I thought the idea of a sequel of a well-known play is interesting because it is so rare. Recently in class we had a discussion about why theatre is so less prone to sequels and recurring characters than movies and television. We came to the conclusion that it has to do with each theater experience being unique in a way that movies just aren’t. If the fourth in a series of plays was being performed near me it would be a lot harder for me to quickly go see the other three to catch up than it would be for me to binge watch marvel movies. Although I am intrigued by this production, it's going to take a lot more effort for me to find a production of the original play to watch than just queueing it up on Netflix. But on the flip side, this individuality of theatrical productions also allows me to keep going back to see Hamlet again and again because I want to see the take that this particular combination of artists took on the story.
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I really like A Doll’s House and specifically the end because she realizes what she has been stuck and is finally leaving her tethers. Now I want to see what this sequel does with her returning. She did leave her husband and home and especially her kids. They grew up with just a father that probably wasn’t the best role model but then they had no mother because she left them. So how are they going to feel when she returns. I am curious about how long she has been away and how old her kids are now. That can bring a lot to the show. If they are older than they are more independent and have a lot more feelings for themselves about what she did, however if they are still a little bit younger then you have the problem of them forgetting and solely learning under her not so good husband. I will definitely be seeing this show in some way or another.
I will admit I don’t have a lot to offer this comment in terms of content because I have never seen the Doll House, however I thought the idea of a sequel of a well-known play is interesting because it is so rare. Recently in class we had a discussion about why theatre is so less prone to sequels and recurring characters than movies and television. We came to the conclusion that it has to do with each theater experience being unique in a way that movies just aren’t. If the fourth in a series of plays was being performed near me it would be a lot harder for me to quickly go see the other three to catch up than it would be for me to binge watch marvel movies. Although I am intrigued by this production, it's going to take a lot more effort for me to find a production of the original play to watch than just queueing it up on Netflix. But on the flip side, this individuality of theatrical productions also allows me to keep going back to see Hamlet again and again because I want to see the take that this particular combination of artists took on the story.
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