Actors ‘master’ a weak ‘builder’
There’s a lot of talk about towers in the Yale Repertory Theater’s new production of Henrik Ibsen’s “Master Builder” at the University Theater. Even the stage itself, which is constructed to look like a building tipped on its side, conjures up an image of a tower as it seems to recede upstage into the sky backdrop. Despite its palpable artistic ambition, however, the production as a whole never really gets off the ground.
I hate to say it, but the fundamental problems may arise from the foundation. Ibsen, the writer of such masterworks and required high school English readings as...
