Design Approaches

Ibsen’s A DOLL HOUSE

A Russian Production, 1902

Claire Bloom as Nora

Jan Maxwell (Kristine) and Janet McTeer on Broadway, 1997

Jane Fonda as Nora, 1979

Julie Harris as NoraHume Cronyn as Krogstad

Gillian Anderson as Noraat Donmar Warehouse, 2009

Opening Scene

Toby Stephens as Torvald

Catherine McCormack and Finbar Lynch at Theatre Royal, Bath - 2010

Mabou Mines DOLLHOUSE, Lee BreuerMaude Mitchell as Nora

Guthrie Theatre update

Pacific Theatre, Vancouver - 2007

Torvald during final scene

ACT, San Francisco, 2004

Nora and Torvald

The set

Costume Design by Edith Leavis Bookstein

Valerie Rios, UNM Rodey Theatre

Groundplan

New Harmony Theatre, IndianaRobert Broadfoot, Designer

Groundplan

Julliard School, 2006

Another sceneDesigned by BEOWULF BORITT

Robert Gardiner, DesignerUniversity of British Columbia

A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance-hall, another to the left leads to Helmer’s study. Between the doors stands a piano. In the middle of the left-hand wall is a door, and beyond it a window. Near the window are a round table, arm-chairs and a small sofa. In the right-hand wall, at the farther end, another door; and on the same side, nearer the foot lights, a stove, two easy chairs and a rocking-chair; between the stove and the door, a small table. Engravings on the walls; a cabinet with china and other small objects; a small book-case with well-bound books. The floors are carpeted, and a fire burns in the stove. --from an Australian Blog

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