The current offering of Equally Represented Arts (ERA) is Dollhouse by Three Manufacturers. The company has assigned one act of Ibsen classic drama, A Doll’s House, to each of three “emerging” directors. They have been trained in ERA’s experimental process, which prioritizes form over content, showing over telling, and delivering the company’s distinctive surrealistic style.

Miranda Jagels Felix, the director of Act 1, surrounds the act’s central characters with a bizarre chorus made up of the other actors. Someone who has never seen Ibsen’s play might find the chorus’s contributions confusing, but familiarity with A Doll’s House makes it possible to appreciate the commentary on the original in Felix’s direction.

Under Spencer Lawton’s direction, Act 2 is closer to the original than the others, but the approach is not entirely literal. This act makes the most use of the stage in The Chapel on Alexander. The other acts are staged on a slightly raised platform on the theater’s floor. The audience is on three sides of the set designed by Lucy Cashion with Jimmy Bernatowicz and lit by Jayson Lawshee.

Bernatowicz’s direction turns Act 3 into a parody of a 1950s soap opera shot in front of an audience for black-and-white television. Two video cameras capture the action, which is projected on the white drop at one end of the theater. The camera captures the images on the drop as well as the actors, so the same image can often be seen more than once in the projection. The clever video design is by Joe Taylor

The actors send up the style of early TV acting. There are breaks for commercials, some of which are spoken by the actors in character. Even after all the spoofing, the famous final scene has striking power.

The excellent ERA cast adroitly handles the three directors’ disparate requirements. The actors playing Ibsen’s characters are, in aphabetical order, Andrew Bayer as Nils Krogstad, Frankie Ferrari as Torvald Helmer, Hailey Medrano as Nora Helmer, Ross Rubright as Dr. Rank, Morgan Schindler as Anne-Marie, Victoria Thomas as Christine Linde.

Molly Wennstrom is charming as a mistress of ceremonies who regales the audience with song and sass. All the actors have impressive costumes by Meredith LaBounty.

Dollhouse by Three Manufacturers continues at 7:30 p.m. through August 9 at The Chapel, 6238 Alexander Drive.

—Gerry Kowarsky