THEATER

Theater for a New Audience
The Father

Today we see The Father and in 3 weeks we see A Doll's House.

Theatre for a New Audience Sets New Opening Nights for THE FATHER and A DOLL'S HOUSE

The Father and A Doll's House, Theatre for a New Audience's two plays in rotating repertory directed by Arin Arbus featuring Maggie Lacey and John Douglas Thompson at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place, have new opening dates: The Father, now in previews, will open Wednesday, May 25, at 7:30pm and A Doll's House will begin previews Tuesday, May 10, at 7:30pm for an opening Tuesday, May 24, at 7:30pm.

(The release date for both shows in a single review is Wednesday, May 25, after 10:00pm.)
Theatre for a New Audience's production of August Strindberg's The Father is a new version by Scottish author David Greig commissioned by Theatre for a New Audience. Maggie Lacey plays Laura and John Douglas Thompson is the Captain. A Doll's House is an adaptation by Thornton Wilder not seen in New York since its Broadway premiere in 1937. Ms. Lacey plays Nora and Mr. Thompson is Thorwald.

These plays, presented in repertory for the first time by an English-language theatre, are both directed by Arin Arbus, Associate Artistic Director of Theatre for a New Audience.

Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director for Theatre for a New Audience, explained, "Ibsen and Strindberg were great rivals. To say they disliked each other is an understatement. Ibsen wrote A Doll's House first and, of course, its central character is Nora, Thorwald's wife. Strindberg wrote The Father in response and its central character is Adolph, the Captain and husband to Laura. Written in the l9th century at the beginning of women's emancipation, the two plays present stark contrasts about marriage and relationships between the sexes."