The plays and performances at the Theater For The New City are one of the salient reasons people live in New York City, where so many talented people reside and produce unique cultural offerings. Chief among them are the talented director and the cast of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, currently performing through April 5th (so get your tickets asap).
Left to right: Charles Everett, Natalie Menna, Jane Cortney, Tom Ryan, Chris Hahn
Directed by the country’s preeminent Strindberg expert and playwright Robert Greer, this presentation of Ibsen’s classic A Doll House is enhanced by a professional cast that delivers a wide range of nuanced emotion, ranging from joy to bafflement, disbelief, disappointment, anger and despair.
Natalie Menna in the role of Nora Helmer captured within her confining doll’s house, takes us on a memorable, wending, and throughly engaging emotional journey that will ultimately be quite surprising at the end. She embodies the fraught Nora from start to finish, and we watch her character’s awesome range. Charles Everett, who plays her husband Torvald Helmer, does so with such ease and aplomb that he is not seen as a maleficent character, but as merely a product of the era – which is to his superb acting credit. Rounding out the play’s cast are Jane Cortney as an earnest, forthright, and likable Mrs. Linde, Chris Hahn as the personable, gullible, and ebullient Dr. Rank, and Tom Ryan as the troubled Nils Krogstad, who is full of machinations and presents his dilemmas with a pro’s touch.
Costumes are delightful eye candy in this play, (Billy Little), and suit the era and characters perfectly, no pun intended. Ditto for the set (Thomas J. Donohoe 11) and perfect lighting (Alex Bartenieff).
Details:
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, as told by August Strindberg and adapted by Robert Greer, also directed by Robert Greer.
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
East village ~ 1st Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets)
MAR 26 – APR 5; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM
Find tickets HERE.
