A Director's Approach to Ingmar Bergman's Nora Cason Warinner
ABSTRACT Opening the Door: A Director’s Approach to Ingmar Bergman’s Nora Cason Warinner Murphy, M.F.A. Thesis Chairperson: Marion D. Castleberry, Ph.D. In 1981, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman radically adapted Henrik Ibsen’s classic stageplay A Doll’s House in order to create his own theatrical work, Nora. Through cutting much of Ibsen’s text and many of his characters, Bergman focused his adaptation on the figure of Nora Helmer, a naïve 19th-century wife and mother desperately trying to avoid the consequences of her past actions. This thesis examines the process undertaken in bringing Bergman’s play to its November 2015 performance run at Baylor University, with explorations of playwright and playscript histories, of directorial analysis and production concepts, and the creative collaborations established between director, designers, and actors. Opening the Door: A Director's Approach to Ingmar Bergman's Nora by Cason Warinner Murphy, B.A. A Thesis Approved by the Department of Theatre Arts Stan C. Denman, Ph.D., Chairperson Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts Approved by the Thesis Committee Marion D. Castleberry, Ph.D., Chairperson DeAnna M. Toten Beard, M.F.A., Ph.D. Stan C. Denman, Ph.D. David J. Jortner, Ph.D. James Kendrick, Ph.D. Accepted by the Graduate School May 2016 J. Larry Lyon, Ph.D., Dean Page bearing signatures is kept on file in the Graduate School. Copyright © 2016 by Cason Warinner Murphy All rights reserved TABLE
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