Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, written in 1879, has a long and storied production history. Fearing audience outrage, directors of some early productions ended the show with Nora peeking her head back inside the drawing room–so as to gaze playfully upon her husband Torvald after defiantly slamming out of the room. Then, in the 1980s, there was Ingmar Bergman’s stark reimagining of Nora’s domestic discontent. Now, Nora-the-Amazon meets Torvald-the-midget in a radical production, renamed DollHouse, which physically manifests the power relationship between these two. Mabou Mines is a troupe with its own storied production history as part of New York City’s avant-garde scene. 612-375-7600; www.walkerart.org
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