The Teatro Real opera house...has the dubious design feature that 68% of its seats are classified as visibilidad reducida o nula (visibility reduced or zero)...When we heard that Madrid’s Festival del Otoño (autumn) featured some plays in English, including NYC’s Mabou Mimes doing Dollhouse, we jumped to the virtual box office. The review in the IHT forewarned us that this was no traditional Ibsen production. All the female parts were played by actresses over 6’ tall and all the male parts by men of about 3.’...At the end Nora demonstrated her newfound independence by taking off all her clothes and singing an aria from one of the box seats.
--American in Madrid Nancy Ross, 30 October 2006
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