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Torvald (an affecting Chris Cooper) never filed the divorce papers, and a judge, whose wife has left him after reading one of Nora’s books, is out for revenge. He threatens to expose Nora as a fraud if she doesn’t renounce her radical positions. Nora needs Torvald to finalize the divorce or she could end up in jail. Fearful that Torvald won’t be willing to help her, she tries to forge an alliance first with Anne Marie and later with her adult daughter, Emmy (played with pungent and ultimately poignant grace by Condola Rashad).
A Doll's House on Broadway Starring Jessica Chastain cast and creative team
After a period of months, Kieler was released from the institution and eventually persuaded Victor to allow her to return to her children. According to Ibsen's biographers, she was furious to learn of the playwright's co-opting of her scandal for his work, convinced that the public would make the connection from the play to the events of her own life. Upon its debut, Ibsen's play quickly generated much acclaim and controversy as one of the first dramatic works to meaningfully address a number of taboo subjects, namely the issue of women's rights.
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New Bedford's 'Your Theatre Inc.' announces cast for Tony nominated 'A Doll's House Part 2' - New Bedford Guide
New Bedford's 'Your Theatre Inc.' announces cast for Tony nominated 'A Doll's House Part 2'.
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Metcalf’s glamorously dressed Nora wears her foibles on her expensive sleeve, but she brings deep emotion to the scene in which Nora describes the torture she went through in severing ties with her children. The final moments between Nora and Torvald may not realize the full pathos that was achieved at South Coast Rep, but Metcalf’s portrayal elucidates the central insight of Hnath’s play — that Nora as a character will always be defined by her never-to-be-completed emancipatory quest. The laughter subsides as the play progresses through a series of gripping duologues that bring to light both the validity and insufficiency of each character’s perspective.
Amy Herzog on Adapting Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People’ for Broadway - The New York Times
Amy Herzog on Adapting Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People’ for Broadway.
Posted: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]
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But she can also devastate you with the way her face collapses in disappointment like a smashed birthday cake. Gold’s direction isn’t always precisely calibrated, but Laurie Metcalf redeems the production with her sorcery. She deserves a Tony Award not just for her nimble performance as Nora in this millennial sequel to Ibsen’s classic but for her longstanding service to the American theater. The surface of the New York production may be strikingly similar, but the tone is drastically different. What in Costa Mesa plays like a thought-provoking drama has become most emphatically on Broadway a comedy of ideas. “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” which is receiving its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, had its Broadway opening on Thursday at the Golden Theatre in a separate production confirming that Lucas Hnath has written one of the year’s best plays.
With her husband's health in dire condition and no financial resources to facilitate the move, the young writer signed an illegal loan to fund the life-saving journey. My Mañana Comes (Playwrights Realm, Drama Desk nominee Outstanding Featured Actor), Charles Bowden Actor Award (New Dramatist), multiple Helen Hayes Award nominations. Previously, Onaodowan was directed by Krasinski in the recent feature A Quiet Place 2. He has also appeared as 'Brandon' in Generation Wrecks, and as 'Cal' in The Super. He previously starred in Person to Person as 'Lester,' alongside Michael Cera, in Thanks for Sharing alongside Mark Ruffalo and Gwyneth Paltrow, in the short film Prom and as 'Ben' in the short film, Anna & The Asteroid.
Doctor Rank (Michael Patrick Thornton), a friend who never seems to be away from the house, is hopelessly in love with Nora, and also facing his own mortality. Anne-Marie (Tasha Lawrence) the nanny watches on as this house of so many cards comes close to toppling. Her central problem remains that she has borrowed money from bank worker Krogstad (Okieriete Onaodowan), gained without Torvald’s knowledge and by forging her own dead father’s signature. Nora illegally borrowed the money for a trip that she and Torvald took to Italy when the latter was recovering from sickness (in those days women could not borrow money without a father or husband’s say-so). Now, Krogstad wants her to pay up, and—to stop Torvald from finding out—wants her to also ensure he doesn’t lose his job under Torvald. This edited version also played in Flensburg, Hamburg, Dresden, Hanover, and Berlin, although, in the wake of protests and a lack of success, Niemann-Raabe eventually restored the original ending.
But for every Stephen Sondheim masterpiece there’s a barrage of jukebox and movie musicals eager to cash in on the forgiving nostalgia of theatergoers. A Doll's House has won several awards, including Outstanding Revival - Play at the Drama Desk Awards and Best Revival - Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. He received his doctorate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from the Yale School of Drama.
Men tend to become heroes by making one spectacular feat that gets great public attention. Women become heroes out of the spotlight, making the daily sacrifice of setting aside their own lives to care for someone else. For women, heroism is often a process that doesn’t take place in an hour or even a day. Herzog also writes totally original plays not based on Scandinavian classics, and one of those, “Mary Jane,” won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 2018. On Tuesday, that play had its Broadway premiere at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and stars Rachel McAdams in her Broadway debut.
Michael Patrick Thornton
Up until the end of the play, the fact that it could be 1879 up on that stage or 2023 is not in the least bothersome — in fact, it’s thrilling. Marriage, motherhood, money problems, friendship, familial secrets, even white-collar crime — these are revealed to be timeless, universal experiences. But what comes across as a little less than cathartic, in 2023, is Nora’s final realization that she must break free from everything she’s known to go find herself. It’s done as a moment of liberation — a call by a woman, for all women — to stop orbiting and find a new path, free from the constraints of old ideas. In this revival, what’s left is a beautiful, spacious clarity about what this oft-produced play is about, who these characters are, what they mean to one another and how they may (or may not) impact audiences of today. There is nothing but dialogue pared down by playwright Amy Herzog (the rare woman interpreting “A Doll’s House,” at least on Broadway) and played with great skill by most of the actors in the production.
But, of course, let’s go back to that actress on the turntable, so placid that audience members hardly notice her when they enter the theater. Shelby (Gaby Diaz), a mutual friend and Carl’s first love, who falls gravely ill. And Douglas (Ahmad Simmons), who sees and claims Henry’s adult heart with an acceptance that can seem strangely and even alarmingly miraculous. The imagery conjures a supernatural patchwork of revenants and Superman. The content of these nightmares and obsessions doesn’t always resonate.
Admittedly, the book by playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury and director and choreographer Justin Peck is more of an evolving scenario than a discernible drama. A compromise is struck between the theater’s proclivity for story and dance’s penchant for abstraction, allowing audience members to connect narrative strands in their own way. Since its premiere in 1879, A Doll's House has become a theatrical classic that gets frequent revivals all over the world. Its themes — including the flipping of traditional gender roles and the need for autonomy, even within a relationship — remain timeless. In addition to her acclaimed work as an actor, Chastain launched Freckle Films, a New York based film and television production company, in 2016. In addition to The 355, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Mothers' Instinct and the limited series, "George & Tammy," Freckle Films is currently developing a series adaptation of the novel His & Hers written by Alice Feeney as well as The School For Good Mothers written by Jessamine Chan.
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