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Jessica Chastain Electrifies a No-Frills Broadway Revival of ‘A Doll’s House’

On the Hudson Theatre’s bare stage, Jessica Chastain is sitting on a chair, revolving on a spinning section of it. Round and round the Oscar-winning actor goes. Audience members take their seats. She gazes out at the Broadway audience impassively, a ghost of a smile on her face, dressed in modern, modish black. Slowly, other characters in this modern adaptation of Ibsen’s 1879 play that he hopes the show could be produced by “HBO or Hulu or Netflix or Amazon or Showtime, or whoever does live specials.” This critic heartily endorses that ambition.

Haddad also told the publication, “All three of us move through the world differently. I think what we’re offering you is: It’s not everybody’s story, it’s our three. And I think that for the disabled audience, it’s about recognition, it’s about relating to us, but also thinking about how I’m not the same as the disabled people in the audience. Our experiences are different, and if I saw a play about their life, it would probably deeply resonate, and also not. It’s not a monolith, disability is not all one umbrella.”

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