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Playing (with) Gestic Dolls in Mabou Mines DollHouse
- Author(s):
- Jacqueline Taucar (see profile)
- Date:
- 2011
- Group(s):
- Feminist Humanities, Performance Studies
- Subject(s):
- Theater, United States, American drama, Feminist theology, Performance art--Study and teaching, Theater and society
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- feminist theatre, Womens History Month, Adaptation, American theatre, Performance studies, Theatre and society
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6P04V
- Abstract:
- This article examines the gender discourses at play in Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell's production "Mabou Mines DollHouse," which re-imagines Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll House" as a literal dollhouse. By casting the male roles with little people (no more than four feet tall) opposite women (who stand at close to six feet tall), Breuer inverts the scale-to-power ratio, illustrating the absurdity of the power imbalance between the tiny men and the women who tower over them. Employing Brechtian theatre techniques, Mabou Mines DollHouse performatively critiques the symbolic and formative function of the doll to shape and structure contemporary social constructions of women in patriarchal society.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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