Arin Arbus, TFANA Associate Artistic Director, has directed six productions of Shakespeare for the company, including acclaimed stagings of Othello and Macbeth.
For the first time for TFANA, she will direct two provocative contemporary classics about marriage in rotating repertory – Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, in an adaptation by Thornton Wilder not seen in New York since its Broadway premiere in 1937, and August Strindberg’s The Father in a new version in English by David Greig (Strindberg’s Creditors at BAM), commissioned by TFANA.
Strindberg wrote The Father as a direct rebuttal to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, fulminating against Ibsen’s tale of a woman bravely escaping a stifling bourgeois marriage. Lean and fresh translations will support this sense of enduring contemporaneity. This is the first time the two plays will be performed in repertory in the English-speaking theatre.
John Douglas Thompson returns to TFANA, following his award-winning performance in Tamburlaine the Great, to play Torvald in A Doll’s House and the Captain in The Father. Drama Desk Award winner Maggie Lacey (Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature Theatre) plays Nora in A Doll’s House and Laura in The Father
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