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This Friday night we went and saw a production of “A Doll’s House” at Almeda Theatre. I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this production given I had never read the play, but let’s just say that I was not ready for what I was about to see. The production was completely modernized, new …
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In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, I don’t believe they represented the script accurately. You could say that she was kept like a “cage bird” in the basement, but to be fair, in the adaptation that we saw, she willingly stayed down there. I’m sure it could’ve been claustrophobic, but he didn’t lock her …
Going into the theatre this was not the play I was prepared to see, that being said I was pleasantly surprised by the modern adaptation of “A Doll’s House.” The adaptation took a more raunchy type of tone to the play and made you have to look and think more to see the “caged bird” …
In any modernization, adaptation, or performance of a story, I believe the most important thing is preserving its central themes. I went into this play completely blind, unaware of what was about to unfold. As the show went on, I found myself surprised, confused, and a bit unsettled by some of the choices (hello freaky …
I don’t have much prior experience with the original A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. I do have prior experience with a very modern adaptation of another one of Henrik Ibsen’s Plays, Hedda Gabler. Similar to this adaptation, the play we watched on Friday was a shocking jump from what one would expect just from …
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Well, now I can confidently say that my first experience with Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was nothing short of memorable. I hadn’t had any previous experience with this play other than knowing the time period prior to seeing it on stage, so I pretty much went into this performance blind. However, when I noticed that …
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I have had the pleasure of working with A Doll’s House before. I thoroughly enjoyed reading and analyzing it. This adaptation was not what I read. At all. I knew this was going to be a modern adaptation, but I did not expect anything like what went on stage. I do not think the designer …
This friday night we went to see Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House at The Almeida theatre. This theatre is regional and super intimate in the London Borough of Islington. Going into this show I had previously read the script and wasn’t rather fond of it. One of the main things was that it just felt …
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Experiencing A Doll’s House at the Almeida Theatre was something I will never forget. It was an incredibly impactful show, especially knowing the history and time in which it was written. I thought it was interesting, the choices made by the director to place the show in a more modern depiction. Having never seen the …
As we recover from jet lag and settle into our British lives, we made our way to our second show; a modern take on Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. The set was designed to resemble a very modern, clean, and empty house. This led to a lot of blocking taking place on the carpeted floor. I …
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