Today I am going with my stepmother to see the Mabou Mines production of DollHouse at St. Ann's
WarehouÂse. This is no typical revival of Ibsen. NO not with experimental theater maven Lee Breuer at the helm.
Breuer led the team that transformed and deconstructed classics like Gospel at Colonus that played at BAM years back, and Peter and Wendy and more.
"Breuer
turns Ibsen's mythic feminist anthem on its head by physicalizing the
equation of Power and Scale. The male characters are played by actors
whose heights range from 40 to 53 inches, and the women by actors
almost 6 feet tall. Nothing dramatizes Ibsen's patriarchal point more
clearly than the image of these little men dominating and commanding
women one and a half times their size." says the St. Ann's blurbage.
turns Ibsen's mythic feminist anthem on its head by physicalizing the
equation of Power and Scale. The male characters are played by actors
whose heights range from 40 to 53 inches, and the women by actors
almost 6 feet tall. Nothing dramatizes Ibsen's patriarchal point more
clearly than the image of these little men dominating and commanding
women one and a half times their size." says the St. Ann's blurbage.
Now through March 8th. I'll be there at 4 p.m.