A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Williamstown Theatre Festival, NIkos Stage, July 20 – 31, by Michael Miller


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Michael Maher, Lily Rabe, and Josh Hamilton in A Doll's House at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Photo T. Charles Erickson.

A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen

Williamstown Theatre Festival, NIkos Stage
July 20 – 31

translated by Paul Walsh
directed by Sam Gold
scenic design - David Korins
costume design - Kaye Voyce
lighting design - Ben Stanton
sound design - Jane Shaw
movement consultant - Dontee Kiehn

Torvald Helmer - Josh Hamilton
Anne-Marie - Zainab Jah
Dr. Rank - Matthew Maher
Nora Helmer - Lily Rabe
Nils Krogstadt - Adam Rothenberg
Kristine Linde - Lili Taylor

One more delicious and satisfying classic in the Nikos. Following the intimate character of A Streetcar Named Desire, the Williamstown Theatre Festival has served the playwright and the public most honorably in Sam Gold's production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. LikeStreetcar, the production was meticulously detailed, scrupulously respectful of the play (whatever liberties might have been taken), and full of life, thanks to some vivid performances by outstanding actors. Jenny Gersten's WTF seems to be hitting its stride in these physically small, but richly imagined performances, a new feature of the Festival since the construction of the "62 Center. Perhaps we should remember that what is now the subsidiary Nikos stage used to be the Adams Memorial Theater, and that an attempt to stage Chekhov's Three Sisters on the Main Stage as a luxury production was a notable failure, not that there haven't been some outstanding successes there as well.

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