"That was not at all the story told in TFANA’s production. If anything, they very much told the opposite story, with the women being the strong figures and Mr. Antrobus bumbling his way through and making things worse until the whole family is stranded on the roof of their house."
Did they alter the text? The gender roles are in the script. It's not my interpretation. I'm certainly open to any staging making a fresh case, but both Mrs. Antrobus and Sabina announce their societal positions based on function in a patriarchal construct. It's not something audience infer or deduce subjectively. It's spelled out. It may be that staging helps correct an imbalance, but the script is the script. |
