A Doll's House Definition Theatre

Highly recommended - "In Definition Theatre Company's take on Henrik Ibsen's protofeministic classic, adapter-director Michael Halberstam (moonlighting from his job as the artistic director of Writers Theatre) has trimmed the script to a lean 80 minutes.  The play loses nothing, however, in his briskly paced, sharply acted staging" - Zac Thompson, Chicago Reader



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4/3/15 - 05/03/15

730p Thu-Sat; 4p Sun


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DEFINITION THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES MICHAEL HALBERSTAM DIRECTING AN ADAPTATION OF HENRIK IBSEN’S A DOLL’S HOUSE – APRIL 2015

CHICAGO (January 12, 2015) – Definition Theatre Company is pleased to announce the second show of its 2014/15 season, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Directed by Writers Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam, A Doll’s House runs April 3 – May 3, 2015; the press performance is on Thursday, April 9 at 7:30pm. Performances are scheduled Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 4:00pm at the Chopin Theatre (1543W Division Street).  Tickets, $25, are on sale now at definitiontheatre.org.
Michael Halberstam comments, “I am excited to be directing for Definition for very specific reasons.  This theatre company was founded at my alma mater, The University of Illinois, in partial response to a dialogue about non-traditional casting during a master class I taught a couple of years ago.  I felt that this collaboration gave me the opportunity to both mentor an emergent company engaged in this very conversation while allowing me to learn more about the process in an organic and integral way.”   He continues, “I have always found that the great off-loop theatre scene is often at its most creative when it has lean resources. As I prepare to expand my toolbox in Glencoe with our new theatre center, it seems like a fine idea to re-engage with core values that drive us to do what we do—namely great words and great actors.  I am wildly excited about doing this play with this company at this moment in time and I cannot wait to be in the room."

Ibsen’s revolutionary classic comes to the stage with Definition’s world premiere adaptation. Nora, a young wife and mother is married to Torvald, a recently promoted bank manager. To the neighbors, their life together seems perfectly content, settled and respectable until a terrible secret from Nora’s past comes back to haunt her and she begins to question everything about her marriage, family and life. A Doll’s House illustrated how no matter how well-intended your actions are the past will always come to light.

Author
Henrik Ibsen

Director
Michael Halberstam

Tags: Theater, American, 2015