Word: ibsen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DOLL'S HOUSE, by Henrik Ibsen. This is a play of which I have only seen the Claire Bloom movie, which I liked, though The Crimson's reviewer did not. There is now a Jane Fonda movie as well. A great play. MIT Community Players. Opens tonight at 8 at the Kresge Little Theater...
...SMOOTHLY, it finally did. For all the ladies' talk that followed, you'd think that King's victory was going down in history as a landmark of the Liberation, as epoch-making as the day of Ibsen's Nora's doorslam, or the day that tanks succeeded cavalry. But after all the fuss, the match wasn't much. It wasn't much...
...movie retells the story of one of the theatre's (Ibsen's) first angry women. Or at least the first to slam the door on her husband and children and on the Victorian respectability that buttressed a lifetime of security. Having been educated to believe that men were better, Nora is unconscious of her oppression. It is so built into her head that it takes her the whole movie to see it, much less to summon the guts to rebel against...
...seductive movies are. He knows how their emotional immediacy can inject the message into your bloodstream before you have time to consider the issues raised. And this somebody is laying it extra heavy on the 'liberation' in the movie. It is as if he had just discovered dynamite in Ibsen's ending and blasted it off for real...
...Doll's House. Christopher Hampton adapts Ibsen's play and refuses to capitalize on its Feminist aspects; he doesn't have to, they are built in. But when Patrick Garland brings it to the screen he cops out in the film on what is most effective in the play. Nora (Claire Bloom) has that sort of perfect fine-featured face with lines of tension at the edges that tell you about the anxiety she suffers in living up to the Victorian ideal of femininity: women should be seen and not heard. She finally slams the door...