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[email protected] Online Press Room: http://press.walkerart.org WALKER ART CENTER PRESENTS LEGENDARY EXPERIMENTAL THEATER COMPANY MABOU MINES’ OBIE AWARD-WINNING MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE “The whole experience is so fascinating—thrilling here, confounding there—that it must be seen.” —New York Times Minneapolis, October 14, 2005—Legendary experimental theater company Mabou Mines returns to the Walker Art Center with the Obie Award–winning Mabou Mines DollHouse, vanguard director Lee Breuer’s beautifully radical and unpredictable adaptation of the Ibsen classic, on Wednesday–Saturday, November 9–12, at 8 pm, and Saturday–Sunday, November 12–13, at 2 pm, in the William and Nadine McGuire Theater. Still shockingly relevant, this tale of a suffocating marriage and the growing 19th-century feminist consciousness is viewed through an upended prism of proportion and scale: literally manifesting the power struggles in the work, the male actors are no taller than four feet, while the Mabou Mines DollHouse Photo: Richard Termine female actors tower at six feet plus. Presented with a deft touch of magical and psychological realism, this doll’s house is transformed from bourgeois tragedy into cutting comedy with a deep and poignant bite, replete with a chorus of marionettes. Contains brief nudity. Directly following the Friday, November 11, performance, Mabou Mines director Lee Breuer and Walker senior curator Philip Bither will participate in a post-performance discussion. Mabou Mines, an avant-garde theater company established in 1970 and based in New York City, emphasizes the creation of new work from original texts and the use of existing texts staged from a specific point of view.