 | A scene from the poster for "Mabou Mines Dollhouse," a co-presentation of the Long Wharf Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre. In this adaptation of Ibsen's "The Dollhouse," the women characters tower over the men by one foot. |
"Mabou Mines Dollhouse," a production that adds a hefty dose of absurdity to a play by one of the masters of modern realism, will be presented on campus Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, under the auspices of Long Wharf Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre.
The play, an Obie Award-winning adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "The Dollhouse," will be staged at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 31, and at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 1, in the University Theatre, 222 York St.
The production was conceived and directed by Lee Breuer, one of the members of the Mabou Mines, a collaborative theater company based in New York City.
Written in 1878, Ibsen's "The Dollhouse" casts a critical light on the traditional roles of men and women during the Victorian era, when the latter were often viewed as "dolls." For his production, Breuer has cast the female characters with actresses nearly six feet tall and the male characters with actors under five feet -- thereby literally embodying the small-mindedness of Victorian society. Nothing dramatizes Ibsen's patriarchal point more clearly, contends the director, than the image of little men dominating and commanding women one-and-a-half times their height in a playhouse-sized dollhouse.
"Mabou Mines Dollhouse" is the fifth in a series of award-winning deconstructed classics directed by Breuer. The others are Beckett's "The Lost Ones" (1974), which also won an Obie Award; "Gospel at Colonus" (1982), which received multiple Obie Award, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize nominations; "Mabou Mines Lear" (1989), which garnered four Obie Awards; and "Peter and Wendy" (1996), which received Obie and Outer Critics Circle awards.
The cast for "Mabou Mines Dollhouse" includes Honora Fergusson, Ricardo Gil, Margaret Lancaster, Kris Medina, Maude Mitchell and Mark Povinelli.
The production features scenic design by Narelle Sissons, lighting design by Mary Louise Geiger, costume design by Meganne George, puppet design by Jane Catherine Shaw and sound design by Edward Cosla.
Mabou Mines has created more than 50 original works and adaptations of classics for the theater. Its work has been presented at theaters in New York City and throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and Asia. Mabou Mines has received more than 50 awards and citations for excellence, including Obie Awards for General Excellence and Sustained Achievement.
Tickets to "Mabou Mines Dollhouse" are $50 for the general public, $30 for seniors and $25 for students with valid I.D. Long Wharf and Yale Rep subscribers can purchase tickets for $30; senior and student subscriber tickets are $18 and $12 respectively. Tickets are available by phone at (203) 43-1234, online at www.yalerep.org and in person at the Yale Rep box office, 1120 Chapel St.
The Long Wharf Theatre/Yale Repertory Theatre co-presentation of "Mabou Mines Dollhouse" is funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, which receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the state arts agencies of New England and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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