Mabou Mines DollHouse

“The whole experience is so fascinating—thrilling here, confounding there—that it must be seen.”—New York Times

Experimental theater legends Mabou Mines returns to the Walker with the Obie Award–winning DollHouse, vanguard director Lee Breuer’s beautifully radical and unpredictable adaptation of the Ibsen classic. Still shockingly relevant, this tale of a suffocating marriage and the growing 19th-century feminist consciousness is viewed through an upended prism of proportion and scale: literally manifesting the power struggles in Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, the male actors are no taller than four feet, while the female actors tower at six feet plus. Presented with a deft touch of magical and psychological realism, this doll’s house, replete with a chorus of marionettes, is transformed from bourgeois tragedy into high comedy with a deep and poignant bite.