Mabou Mines DollHouse (2007)
Produced by
Presented by
Creator: Lee Breuer
Director: Lee Breuer
Adapted from A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen.
Venue
Run
January 24th, 2007 – February 4th, 2007
Awards & Nominations
2007 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Touring Production.
Synopsis
Nora comes home with a Christmas present. It is a dollhouse so large that the children can play inside. All the period furniture, the crockery, the knick-knacks are the right size for the children, Emmy and Ivar, who are hardly more than three feet tall.
Enter Torvald, Rank, and Krogstad – We find that the men are the same size as the children. Is this dollhouse the world of patriarchy, the world in which a woman never fits?
Here Ibsen’s feminism is metaphorically rendered as a parable of scale. 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. Even the cod-Norwegian accents are miniaturized; like the accents in Disney’s “It’s A Small World”. Nothing here is real except the pain. Both Torvald and Nora are trapped in a meta-narrative, playing out an illusion of male power. Both pay the price: the death of love. (maboumines.org)
Cast
| Maudie Mitchell | Nora Helmer |
| Mark Povinelli | Torvald Helmer (Jan. 24 - 28) |
| Nic Novicki | Torvald Helmer (Jan. 30 - Feb. 4) |
| Nic Novicki | Nils Krogstad (Jan. 24 - 28) |
| Honora Fergusson Neumann | Kristine Linde |
| Ricardo Gil | Dr. Rank |
| Margaret Lancaster | Helene |
| Hannah Kritzeck | Emmy Helmer |
| Elizabeth Girardeau | Ivar Helmar |
| Sophie Birkedlalen | Bob Helmer |
| Eilert Sundt | Bob Helmer |
| Eamonn Farrell | Cameo |
| Jessica Weinstein | Stilt Performer |
Creative Team
| Lee Breuer | Conceived by |
| Lee Breuer | Director |
| Lee Breuer | Adapter |
| Maudie Mitchell | Adapter |
| Eve Beglarian | Original Music and Collage of Edvard Grieg's Piano Works |
| Narelle Sissions | Set Designer |
| Mary Louise Geigar | Costume Designer |
| Jane Catherine Shaw | Puppet Design |
| Edward Costa | Sound Designer |
| Eamonn Farrell | Choreographer |
| Erik Liberman | Additional Choreography |
| Honora Fergusson Neumann | Puppeteer |
| Meganne George | Puppeteer |
| Ilia Dodd Loomis | Puppeteer |
| Eamonn Farrell | Puppeteer |
| Margaret Lancaster | Puppeteer |
| Jessica Weinstein | Puppeteer |
| Kari Casselius | Assistant Costume Designer |
Music
| Chrisina Valdes | Piano Accompaniment (Jan. 24 - 31) |
| Ning Yu | Piano Accompaniment (Feb. 1 - 4) |
| Mary Rodriguez | Snare Drum |
| Lauren Skuce | Soprano |
| Peter Stewart | Baritone |
Production
| Sharon Levy | Producer |
| Stacy Waring | Stage Manager |
| Randy Crabb | Technical Director |
| Christine Parker | Assistant Technical Director |
| Aaron Sporer | Lighting Supervisor |
| Meganne George | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Rick Hayworth | Sound Supervisor |
| Eamonn Farrell | Assistant Stage Manager |
