Western Gold Theatre reimagines famous heroine's story in A Doll’s House Part 2, November 9 to 26
Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath picks up the plot 15 years after Nora slammed the door on domesticity in Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece
Tom McBeath and Melissa Oei in A Doll’s House Part 2. Photo by Javier Torres
Western Gold Theatre presents A Doll’s House Part 2 from November 9 to 26 (Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 pm and matinees from November 11 on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2 pm) at PAL Studio Theatre
WHAT WOULD NORA Helmer do if she one day returned to the domestic life she slammed the door on? Audiences can find out Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath’s take in A Doll’s House Part 2.
The acclaimed Florida-born, New York City-based writer picks up the storyline 15 years after the heroine fled so much drudgery only to make a comeback to confront her husband, youngest daughter, and the nursemaid who raised her children.
Directed by Seamus Fera, the play plumbs the depths of Henrik Ibsen’s exploration of traditional, rigid gender roles while offering a modern view of marriage and the ways in which human relationships can be so complicated.
When the play premiered in 2017, The New Yorker called it Hnath’s “strongest work” to date, describing it as “invigorating” and “a kind of naughty imposition on a classic, which, in addition to investing Ibsen’s signature play with the humor that the nineteenth-century artist lacked, raises a number of questions, such as What constitutes an individual achievement in this age of the simulacrum, when everything owes something to something else?”
Tebo Nzeku in A Dolls House Part 2. Photo by Javier Torres.
Melissa Oei plays Nora; Tom McBeath plays her husband, Torvald; Tebo Nzeku is the heroine’s youngest child, Emmy; and Tanja Dixon-Warren takes on the role of nursemaid Anne Marie.
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