Idyllwild Arts Academy Presents

A Doll’s House By Henrik Ibsen, (A new version by Christopher Hampton)

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, in an updated version by Christopher Hampton, will be presented by the Idyllwild Arts Theatre Department Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 25 at 2:00 p.m. in the Idyllwild Arts Foundation Theatre.

A Doll's House was the second in a series of realist plays by Ibsen. The obvious importance of A Doll's House is the feminist message that rocked the stages of Europe when the play was premiered in 1879. Nora, the plays protagonist, rejected marriage and motherhood that scandalized contemporary audiences. This updated version by Christopher Hampton originally premiered in 1971 at the Playhouse Theatre in New York.

Director of the production, Laezer Schlomkowitz has been directing theatre since 1972 and performing since before he can remember. An on and off again resident of Santa Barbara since 1970, he's acted and directed in New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Detroit, Los Angeles, Elgin, Scotland, as well as Santa Barbara, and when he hasn't been able to find theatre work, he's helped create it. He's received two Eldon Boyd Fellowships, a C.E.T.A. grant for new plays; he's a four-time recipient of an ‘artist-in residence grant' from the California Arts Council, and he spent a year in the northeast of Scotland, teaching and directing under a Fulbright Fellowship program.

Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre major Jordan Fraider plays Nora, the play’s central character, with J.J. Mehren as Torvald. Other players in the production are Nick Kapustinsky as Dr. Rank, Travis Acreman as Krogstad, Amy Wilson as Mrs. Linde, Teale Sperling as Nanny and Erika Anderson as the Maid.

The production team also features the talents of students Kendall Henle as Stage Manager and Rosy Garner as Costume Designer and Shop Manager. Bonnie Carpenter, Head of Design for the Academy is Designer of the scenery, Todd Carpenter, Design Faculty serves as Technical Director. Additional students of the theatre department perform vital roles of building scenery, managing props and constructing costumes.

The production of A Doll’s House is free, open to the general public and the theatre is handicapped accessible. The Idyllwild Arts Foundation Theatre is on the campus of Idyllwild Arts at 52500 Temecula Road in Idyllwild, California. For additional information please visit our website at www.idyllwildarts.org or call (951) 659 2171 x. 339.