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...DOLL'S HOUSE...
Christopher Hampton's adaptation transcribes rather than transcends Ibsen's antique dramaturgy, while Patrick Garland's direction is curiously uninflected, so the whole enterprise gives off the air of a respectful college theatrical. As Nora Helmer, Claire Bloom seems to substitute aspiration for inspiration-a windup doll whose spring is not wound tightly enough under the tensions of dull domesticity in the early going, and who completely runs down in the final confrontation with her husband. As her antagonist, Anthony Hopkins acts more like a spoiled adolescent than an oppressor to reckon with. A quartet of worthy...
...interest in this production of A Doll's House is mostly historical and comparative (Jane Fonda stars in yet another film of the play that is scheduled to be released in the fall). One emerges from it suffused with a feeling of duty done, a debt paid to cultural history. It is a mood entirely indistinguishable from boredom...
...blinding strobe lights flashed Alice strutted around the stage like Tiny Tim impersonating the Marquis de Sade. He stabbed a life-sized doll that drew a loud roar of approval. Then Alice allowed his pet boa constrictor to slither down his body and protrude its head between his legs. More roars...
represents that dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Out Barbie doll President, with his Barbie doll wife and his box-full of Barbie doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us: the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts, on nights when the moon comes too close...