"Primal…Suspenseful…Achingly clear… To see [Ibsen’s A DOLL’S HOUSE and Strindberg’s THE FATHER] in tandem is to experience two of modern theater’s most influential minds locked in fierce dialogue … Ms. Arbus makes sure that we can hear — but really hear — what everyone in each play is saying… what I love about Ms. Arbus is she leads you into insights without pushing…she lets us see how two literary geniuses dealt with one subject, to notice the similarities as well as the differences."

― The New York Times, Critics Picks

"Celerity, clarity, accessible, universal resonance."

― Time Out New York, Critics’ Pick

"This inspired double billed pairs two plays about marriage from two Scandinavian titans… a flash point about for new ideas about gender and political self-determination…in a virtuosic turn, Maggie Lacey and John Douglas Thompson play both Nordic couples."

― The New Yorker

Overview

Drama Desk Award winner Maggie Lacey (Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature Theatre) and John Douglas Thompson, returning to TFANA after his groundbreaking performance in Tamburlaine the Great (Drama Desk and Obie Awards), star in two provocative dramas about marriage.

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House adapted by Thornton Wilder, which premiered on Broadway in 1937, plays alongside August Strindberg’s The Father, in a new version in English by Scottish author David Greig (Strindberg’s Creditors at BAM) commissioned by TFANA. Writing The Father in response to A Doll’s House, Strindberg offers his own startling vision of marriage and the battle of the sexes.

TFANA Associate Artistic Director Arin Arbus (King Lear) stages both plays performed for the first time in rotating repertory.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE and THE FATHER Production Photos

Maggie Lacey in A DOLL'S HOUSE

Media

Trailer: A DOLL'S HOUSE and THE FATHER

First Rehearsal: A DOLL'S HOUSE and THE FATHER in Repertory