For the first time for TFANA, she will direct two provocative contemporary classics about marriage in rotating repertory – Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, in an adaptation by Thornton Wilder not seen in New York since its Broadway premiere in 1937, and August Strindberg’s The Father in a new version in English by David Greig (Strindberg’s Creditors at BAM), commissioned by TFANA.
Strindberg wrote The Father as a direct rebuttal to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, fulminating against Ibsen’s tale of a woman bravely escaping a stifling bourgeois marriage. Lean and fresh translations will support this sense of enduring contemporaneity. This is the first time the two plays will be performed in repertory in the English-speaking theatre.
John Douglas Thompson returns to TFANA, following his award-winning performance in Tamburlaine the Great, to play Torvald in A Doll’s House and the Captain in The Father. Drama Desk Award winner Maggie Lacey (Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature Theatre) plays Nora in A Doll’s House and Laura in The Father
REPERTORY PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
VISIT: http://www.tfana.org/season-2016/dolls-house-father/calendar-2
Age Guidance: 16
Show Notes: No Intermission
Audience Advisory:
The Father contains haze and the use of strobe lights.