A Doll's House

When one picks an iconic text that has had many a retelling, the reinvention of it always remains the primary challenge. Pushan Kripalani, who has directed Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, for Ila Arun's annual Ibsen Festival, first read the play when he was in school. When he returned to the text, for the purpose of this play, he did not want to do it the traditional way. After a table reading over two weeks, with his actors – Ira Dubey and Joy Sengupta – the trio developed a stripped down version of the play; stripped of extra characters, props, manners and sets. "The set is a roll of paper tape and four chairs," Kripalani tells us, about his experimantal take.