Production History - Northern Stage 2008

Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England

19 April 2008  – 31 May 2008

Director:  Erica Whyman

Scenery:  Soutra Gilmour

Lighting: Charles Balfour

Music: Leif Jordanssen

Choreography:  Liv Lorent and Caroline Reece

Adaptation: Frank McGuinness

Lyn Gardner - The Guardian

     The 1950s setting works very well; it is a period far enough away in time for the stifling social code of Ibsen's play not to jar, but modern enough to connect with today. Soutra Gilmour's startling design offers a wealth of period detail in a glass house where all is visible and yet both husband and wife are blind to the truth about their marriage. Source

Peter Lathan - The British Theatre Guide

     But what of the production? Designer Soutra Gilmour, in her fourth collaboration with Whyman at Northern Stage (they have also worked together before at the Gate in Notting Hill), has produced a glass house, through the walls of which we can see, apart from the living room, Helmer's study and a passage way together with the front door of the house, and beyond that into the street. The walls are etched with the same design as the wallpaper on the tormentors which turn the open space of Stage 1 into a proscenium. Based on a Jacobean wallpaper design, it has, appropriately, a very Aubrey Beardsley feel. Source

Bonus! Videos:

Erica Whyman Speaks about A Doll's House
Scenes from the Production