Byline: TRESCA WEINSTEIN Special to the Times Union
In Mabou Mines' postmodern take on "A Doll's House," all the women are tall, all the men are shorter than 41/2 feet, and all the furniture is kindergarten-sized.
On top of that, the entire play takes place within a dollhouse that Nora, the heroine of the piece, has brought home for her children.
This is one twisted world.
"It's the kind of situation where you don't know if you should laugh or cry," says Mabou Mines' Lee Breuer, who directed "DollHouse" for the New York City-based company. The production is on stage Friday at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass.
One of the canonical feminist works in Western literature, Henrik Iben's 1979 play laid bare the oppressive nature …
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