West Palm Beach, Florida
October 16, 2009– November 29, 2009
Director: William Hayes
Scenery: Michael Amico
Costumes: Brian O'Keefe
Lighting: Ron Burns
Sound: Matt Corey
Adaptation: Frank McGuinness
Brandon K. Thorp - Broward-Palm Beach New Times
But they are completely overshadowed by the walking meltdown that Margery Lowe insists on being from curtain-up to curtain-call. The whole idea behind A Doll's House is that Nora Helmer has so completely bought into received notions of wifely duty that she doesn't realize how little her painfully oblivious husband appreciates her or the sacrifices she's made, and how completely she has subjugated her identity to please him. But Lowe's performance throughout the first act shows us none of this. Her Nora is obviously acting, and not well. Her gestures are so big, her voice so full of such sugary affectation that you get the sense she'd rather dispatch with acting altogether and hang a sign around her neck reading: "This Is A Sham." Source
Hap Erstein - Palm Beach ArtsPaper
Whichever it is, Ibsen does not help matters by having Nora’s “Click!” moment -- as Gloria Steinem would put it -- during intermission. It is not that Nora’s character has a huge contrasting arc, but rather it is an on-off switch. Although Dramaworks chose to produce a fairly new adaptation of the play by Frank McGuiness (Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me), his script does nothing to inject a more modern viewpoint or dramaturgy. Source
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