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Topic: A Doll’s House
A Doll’s House: One of the Roxy’s best!
November 12, 2007 | 
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, first performed more than a century ago to scandalized British audiences and once the target of censorship, seems tame by 21st century standards, but there’s nothing tame about this Roxy Theatre production and the power exuded by its cast.
As the scene is set in Act One, we are introduced the somewhat stodgy and condescending Torval Helmer (Matthew Archambault), a bank manager who treats his wife, Nora (Nikki Ferry), as if she were a child, a mental featherweight he teasingly refers to as his “sparrow” and”little squirrel” and other similar endearments. And indeed, in this elegant Victorian setting, Nora emerges initially as a sometimes pouting, childish, seemingly flighty bit of fluff all to happy to spend a day shopping, fluttering through a fairly superficial life and trying to be both secretive and clever about the sweets — the macaroons — she treats herself to behind her husband’s back. It’s all a game, or so it seems, but then the plot — as it always does — thickens.
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| The cast of A Doll’s House: top from left, Matthew Archambault as Torvald, Joe Sonsenshein as Krogstad, Linda Speir as Nanny; bottom from left, Nikki Ferry as Nora, Elyse Chambers as Mrs. Christine LindeAnne and Jay Doolittle as Doctor Rank. |
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A Doll’s House: Ibsen’s once banned play births feminism for modern stage
November 2, 2007 |
Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking play, A Doll’s House, will open Nov. 9 at the Roxy Regional Theater in downtown Clarksville.
A Doll’s House is considered to be the first “feminist” play, challenging the Victorian ideal of a woman’s role in marriage. When initially written back in 1879 — yes, 1879 — it was banned in Britain and the subject of controversy and requests to “change the ending.” All the more reason to see it. Not that it is the target of such controversy today; in fact by modern standards the play is tame.
In Ibsen’s time, though, when women were considered “fragile” subservient to men in marriage and men controlled the home, the money and the lifestyles, having a female character dare to walk out on a sacrosanct marriage was, well, unthinkable. Sacrilegious. «Read the rest of this article»
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