A Doll's House @ BAM — Page 2

The Fiona Shaw/Deborah Warner MEDEA and the Patrick Stewart/Rupert Goold MACEBTH both began at BAM.

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Thanks, AC. Can't believe I forgot that, especially since I saw both of those shows at BAM and certainly knew they went to Broadway.

Cate Blanchett's Streetcar did not transfer because the Williams estate already promised the Terrance Howard revival for Broadway.

The Janet McTeer version started at BAM and went to Broadway.

I saw this production at the Young Vic and was blown away (you can watch is on Digital Theatre). I saw it again today.

Hattie Morahan could be our next Cate Blanchett. She is incredible. I've seen many A Doll's House, but what distinguishes this one is Hattie, the set, the lighting, the baby and the relationship with Torvald.

So often productions play the ending at the beginning (Nora is miserable when the curtain rises), but what we have here is two incredibly sexy people, completely into one another, but then...

The relationship between them is like so many people today. Cheerful, sex is great, but it's all surface. Nora has a realization. When Nora says "we've never had a serious conversation". I heard people sob.

We sleep next to a partner. We have sex with people. Do we know them? Do we know their souls? Do we have souls? That last ten minutes, I couldn't breathe.

It makes me love theatre even more that a play that premiered in 1879 still holds so much power today.

Just got back from BAM. I'm dumbfounded as to why everyone is so ecstatic about this Doll's House. This Nora is petulant, arrogant, narcissistic, nutty, and relentlessly annoying. Her monotony is alleviated only in the final scene by something hitherto unrevealed: whininess.