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A Doll's House (Hampton)
A Doll's House (Hampton)
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Author: Henrik Ibsen Translated by: Christopher Hampton Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. Format: Softcover # of Pages: 100 Pub. Date: 1972 ISBN-10: 0573608148 ISBN-13: 9780573608148 Cast Size: 4 women, 3 men and 2 children
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About the Play:
A Doll's House is a full-length drama by Henrik Ibsen,
translated by Christopher Hampton. This 1879 masterpiece about
Nora and Torvald Helmer's fragile marriage was a watershed moment in
both theatre and feminism. As Christmas Eve approaches and purse
strings tighten; the Helmer's discover that the façade of their
perfect lives will crumble with the stroke of a pen. Seemingly
carefree Nora must face the consequences of her darkest secret and
the lies she told to save her husband's life. Written when he was 51,
this is the play that made Henrik Ibsen internationally
famous.
A Doll's House is Christopher Hampton's translation
of Henrik Ibsen's classic play about Nora and Torvald Helmer's
bankrupt marriage. This epochal drama of marriage and the individual
portrays a controlling husband Torvald Helmer, a recently promoted
bank manager, and his wife Nora, a submissive young woman who, when
their idealized homelife collapses, comes to the realization that she
must finally close the door on her husband, children, and life in "a
doll's house" in order to find and live as her true self. The
classic feminist play about a husband who treated his wife like a
plaything to be wound up on demand and a who loves her husband so
much that she committed forgery for him. Christopher Hampton
adapts the play, but does not capitalize on its Feminist aspects; he
doesn't have to, they are built in. A Doll's House is no mere
social tract, but a quietly powerful and unsettling drama that
strikes at the false heart of all relationships and situations based
on condescension and inequality.
A Doll's House premiered in 1879 at the Royal Theatre in in
Copenhagen, Denmark. This translation by British playwright
Christopher Hampton, opened in 1971 on Broadway and ran for
over a year at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City. Since then
this vigorously modern translation enjoyed
widespread international acceptance among leading theatres, and has
become a popular choice for college
and community theatre productions.
Cast: 4 women, 3 men and 2 children.
About the Playwright:
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright and
author of more than 25 plays between 1850 and 1899. He is revered in
Norway as its most famous author and a national symbol, even though
he is perhaps best known for the eight plays written abroad in Italy
and Germany between the years of 1877 and 1890. These plays, renowned
for their astringent social and governmental critique caused a great
deal of controversy; both when they were originally performed and as
a result of the various revivals throughout the intervening century
and a half. He is now widely regarded as the "father of modern
drama" and one of the greatest dramatists who ever lived.
Christopher Hampton is a
British playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, and a consummate
translator and adaptor of novels. He is perhaps most famous
for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses (based on the novel by
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos), which won an Olivier Award in 1986. He
adapted the play for film and won an Oscar for the screenplay. His
theatre work includes the stage adaptation of Sunset Boulevard
for Andrew Lloyd Webber, which received Tony Awards for both
Book and Lyrics. He has translated a wide range of works including
classics by Chekhov, Ibsen and Moliere as well as contemporary plays
by Yasmina Reza and Florian Zeller. His long list of screenplays
includes A Doll's House, The Good Father, Total
Eclipse, and The Quiet American. |
Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Frank McGuinness
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Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Christopher Hampton
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Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Arthur Miller
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