Word: krogstadt
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...like a sandpiper. This does not destroy Nora's coquettishness, but it certainly diminishes it. There seems to be an arbitrary rhetoric of motions with which Ullmann plays the role. When she fears that her husband Torvald (Sam Waterston) will discover her secret dealings with the malignant moneylender Krogstadt (Barton Heyman), she makes the panicky gestures of a heroine in a silent-movie melodrama. When she reads the riot act to Torvald prior to slamming the famous door, she sits as motionless as a pillar of ice. Presumably, this translates as "frozenly adamant...
...triggers the mechanics of the play by making a secret loan to Nora and then writing her husband a letter about it, Krogstadt should be ominous. Yet Heyman merely huffs and puffs like a March wind. Dr. Rank, Nora's platonic admirer, is dying of hereditary syphilis and is in considerable agony. No one has apparently mentioned this to Michael Granger, who plays the doctor as if he were an aging boulevardier with a head cold...
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