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Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre
2-3 June 2006 (Fri-Sat) 7:45pm
4 June 2006 (Sun) 3pm
$360, 280, 150
Performed in English with Chinese Surtitles
This production contains nudity and scenes of an adult nature |
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Winner of OBIE Awards for Direction and Performance in 2004
Mabou Mines DollHouse is the fifth in a series of award-winning reinvented classics directed by Lee Breuer: Beckett's The Lost Ones, 1974 (OBIE), Gospel at Colonus, 1982 (OBIEs, Tony and Pulitzer nominations), Mabou Mines Lear, 1989 (4 OBIEs) and Peter and Wendy, 1996 (OBIEs, Outer Critics Circle).
This OBIE Award-winning production brings Ibsen's 19th Century feminism into an equation of power and scale. Shorter-than-average male actors (up to 4 feet tall) contrast women of normal height. Nothing dramatizes Ibsen's patriarchal point more clearly than the image of these little men dominating and commanding women 1.5 times their size in a doll house.
Eve Beglarian’s score, a collage of Edvard Grieg’s piano works, accompanies each scene — it’s as if we’re at a silent movie — while the choreography deconstructs the melodramatic posturing and synthesizes it into dance. Maude Mitchell's OBIE Award-winning performance brings rare depth and unusual perspective to the role of Nora. Mabou Mines DollHouse turns bourgeois tragedy into high comedy with deep political bite.
www.mabouminesdollhouse.com |
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"A playful, perverse and powerful adaptation"
Bloomberg News
"The whole experience is so fascinating - thrilling here, confounding there - that it must be seen."
The New York Times
"Thrillingly re-establishes the seething, self-referential theatricality of Ibsen's realism."
Village Voice, New York
"Surprising, insightful, and unexpectedly moving."
Newsday, New York
"It is one of those experiences for which one searches, night after night in the theatre, and which one will not forget for a long time."
Le Monde, Paris
"Fascinating work, radical. It is a Nora for our times."
Le Figaro, Paris
"Bold and brilliant, and at once fascinating, outrageous and inspired."
Chicago Sun-Times
"Fantastical, wondrous and wonderful... the most outlandish Ibsen production of all time."
Sudwest Aktiv, Stuttgart
"Peculiar, powerful, simply touching."
Dagbladet, Oslo |
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Conceived and Directed by Lee Breuer
Original Music and Adaptations of Edvard Grieg by Eve Beglarian
Set Design: Narelle Sissons
Lighting Design: Mary Louise Geiger
Costume Design: Meganne George
Puppet Design: Jane Catherine Shaw
Sound Design: Edward Cosla
Adaptation and Dramaturgy: Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell
Choreography: Eamonn Farrel
With special choreography by Martha Clarke and Erik Liberman
Maude Mitchell as Nora
Mark Povinelli as Torvald Helmer
Kristopher Medina as Nils Krogstadt
Honora Ferguson as Kristine Linde
Ricardo Gil as Dr. Rank
Margaret Lancaster as Helene
Lee Breuer
"Lee Breuer is a wizard-director, an alchemist who blends ideas, genres, styles, texts and technologies to make new kinds of theatre." The New York Times
"A legendary giant of the theatrical avant-garde" Chicago Tribune
"Nora dances the tarantella as if her life depends on it. The life of our theatere depends on such daringly tarantellian directors as Breuer." Village Voice
Henrik Ibsen
Year 2006 marks the centenary of the death of Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906), an important Norwegian playwright internationally acclaimed as one of the most influential dramatists of all time. He had altogether twenty-six plays and one collection of poetry published. A Doll House was the basis of his getting well-known. Other classics were Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, Pillars of Society, Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler, etc. His plays are still highly topical and continue to be staged in all parts of the world.
Considered as the "father of modern drama", Ibsen is also said to be the greatest dramatist since Shakespeare. He was a major force in establishing realism as the major theatrical style of the 20th century. His realism and treatment of contemporary social problems have influenced many dramatists such as George Bernard Shaw, August Strindberg and Arthur Miller. He was a central figure in the modern breakthrough in the intellectual life of Europe. Ibsen was introduced to China during the May Fourth period and had a considerable influence on the development of drama in China. Hu Shi wrote his essay on Ibsen in 1918 for the influential, radical periodical Xin Quing Nian.
Ibsen died in Christiania on 23 May 1906, at the age of seventy-eight. |
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"The name Mabou Mines has become a kind of totem in today's theatre. To their peers, this New York-based company represents a model of avant-garde theatricality." Newswee
"One of the most influential experimental ensembles of our time" The New York Times
"One of the most original and inventive American theatre troupes" Le Quotidien de Paris
www.maboumines.org |
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Running time is about 2 hours and 30 minutes.
No latecomers will be admitted until the interval or a suitable break in the programme |
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Audience members are invited to attend the meet-the-Artist session after the performance on 4 June 2006 |
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Tickets available from 3 April onwards at all URBTIX outlets
Half-price tickets available for senior citizens, people with disabilities, full-time students, and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) Recipients. (Limited tickets for students and CSSA Recipients available on a first-come-first-served basis)
10% discount for Friends of LCSD performing venues
10% discount for every purchase of 4-9 standard tickets; 20% for 10 or more standard tickets |
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Programme Enquiries : 2268 7323
Ticket Enquiries and Reservations : 2734 9009
Credit Card Telephone Booking : 2111 5999
Internet Booking : www.urbtix.hk
The content of this programme does not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
The presenter reserves the right to substitute artist and change the programme should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary. |
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