Lee Breuer

Mabou Mines Dollhouse

Archive 2005

Theatre

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Adaptated from Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House (1879), with excerptsfrom The Vikings at Helgeland (1857)

Adaptator and Director, Lee Breuer, Maude Mitchell
Original music and score adaptation, Edward Grieg, Eve Beglarian, played by Lisa Moore
Dramaturgy, Maude Mitchell
Choreography, Martha Clarke, Eamonn Farrell, Erik Liberman
Set Design, Narelle Sissons
Costume Design, Meganne George
Light, Mary Louise Geiger
Puppetry Direction, Jane Catherine Shaw
Sound Design, Edward Cosla

With Maude Mitchell, Mark Povinelli, Kristopher Medina, Honora Fergusson Ricardo Gil, Margaret Lancaster, Lisa Moore
Subtitles, Denise Luccioni (translation) and Patrick Lecoq (operator)
Production Mabou Mines Company (Lisa Harris)

Invited by Théâtre National de la Colline and Festival d’Automne à Paris

With the support of Fondation Florence Gould, Onda and Guy de Wouters

Mabou Mines Dollhouse was premiered at St. Ann’s Warehouse - Brooklyn (NY) in Novembre 2003
et was awarded two Village Voice OBIE Award 2004 to Lee Breuerfor his direction and to Maude Mitchell for her performance.

Tour : TNP/ Lyon Octobre 5 to October 9 , TNS/Strasbourg Octobre 12 to October 22

Nora lives on, her suffering unabated, 126 years after Henrik Ibsen penned his classic ode to female sacrifice in a society run by men, A Doll’s House. In Lee Breuer’s adaptation, Nora is a wife-“toy” who literally towers over the lilliputian male actors who surround her on stage. Accepting her “doll” status, submitting to constant cajoling and ridicule, Breuer suggests, is the key to surviving in a patriarchal world where men’s egos must always be flattered.