Mabou Mines DollHouse @ UCLA LIVE Nov 28-Dec 10, 2006

The iconoclastic director who radically reinvented such classics as Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear turns Ibsen's 19th century feminist anthem on its head with his wildly acclaimed, OBIE Award-winning version of A Doll's House. In his surrealistic vision, little men, portrayed by actors less than four and a half feet tall, dominate big women, played by actresses nearly six feet. Set in a playhouse-sized world, the women literally must crouch, crawl and cram themselves into miniature furniture in order to function in the men's world. Eve Beglarian's score, a collage of Edvard Grieg's piano works, accompanies each scene like a silent film in this wicked and dizzying visual commentary on sexual politics.

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[verderber1]

Lee Breuer is a theatrical freakin' genius!

[Yanitube]

True, I went to go see the play about a week ago, it was amazing!

[dunlopp9987]

We just talked about Mabou Mines and this production during Theatre History today. This re-working blew my mind, the concept for it. I had to see it, and this is definitely a pretty incredible re-working of it.