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MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE
Currently touring worldwide, click here for tour information- read excerpts from reviews

Ibsen's A Doll's House is metamorphosed into a cutting edge post-modern feminist statement by Lee Breuer's production. All male roles are cast with little people, the female roles are cast with normal height women. The entire play takes place in the children's room where, for Christmas, Nora has given her children an actual "life-size" children's dollhouse, complete with child-size furniture. As the scenes unfold, the characters move through the dollhouse. Thus, relationships between size and power are explored on many levels.

Through these devices, Breuer's unique insight into this complex playwright and play deepens our appreciation of the revolutionary aspects of both the man and the play in an historical context. The entire piece is accompanied by live acoustic piano. The score by composer Eve Beglarian is a collage of motifs from the piano concerti of Ibsen contemporary and fellow countryman, Edvard Grieg. Martha Clarke's choreographed dance sequences that render lyrical--as well as deconstruct humorously--Ibsen's text, much in the way Mark Morris deconstructs The Nutcracker.



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	CHOEPHORAE (The Libation Bearers) Premieres in Patras, Greece in May of 2006 The second part of Aeschylus' ancient Greek dramatic trilogy which chronicles the murder of Agamemnon by his wife in revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia, Clytemnestra's killing by her son Orestes, and Orestes' resulting trial and acquittal, this unique production will be sung by an all female cast. Choephorae is being commissioned by Patras, Greece, Cultural Capital of Europe 2006 and produced by PrimeArt S.A. in association with Mabou Mines and Micocci Productions, LLC.
	RED BEADS Mabou Mines' multidisciplinary opera written and directed by Lee Breuer www.redbeads.info RED BEADS teams Breuer with Japanese composer Ushio Torikai, who draws inspiration for the opera from choral music by Japanese nuns, and puppeteer Basil Twist, who began his exploration of puppets-and-the-elements with water in Symhonie Fantastique and here relies on the air itself to bring his puppets alive. The production premiered in 2005 at the NYU Skirball Center in New York. Read the NY Times review
Maude Mitchell as Nora	MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE Currently touring worldwide, click here for tour information- read excerpts from reviews Ibsen's A Doll's House is metamorphosed into a cutting edge post-modern feminist statement by Lee Breuer's production. All male roles are cast with little people, the female roles are cast with normal height women. The entire play takes place in the children's room where, for Christmas, Nora has given her children an actual "life-size" children's dollhouse, complete with child-size furniture. As the scenes unfold, the characters move through the dollhouse. Thus, relationships between size and power are explored on many levels. Through these devices, Breuer's unique insight into this complex playwright and play deepens our appreciation of the revolutionary aspects of both the man and the play in an historical context. The entire piece is accompanied by live acoustic piano. The score by composer Eve Beglarian is a collage of motifs from the piano concerti of Ibsen contemporary and fellow countryman, Edvard Grieg. Martha Clarke's choreographed dance sequences that render lyrical--as well as deconstruct humorously--Ibsen's text, much in the way Mark Morris deconstructs The Nutcracker.
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