(Photo of Melissa Oei and Tom McBeath by Javier Sotres)
There’s a knock on the door. How else could it start?
In Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 script A Doll’s House, Nora, the heroine, leaves her suffocating marriage, her husband Torvald, her three young children, and her bourgeois life. And she slams the door on the way out. Famously, that slam echoed around the world. Ibsen’s protofeminism was considered so scandalous that A Doll’s House was banned in several countries. But the play was a sensation.
In A Doll’s House, Part 2, American playwright Lucas Hnath dares to create a sequel to this classic.
In it, Nora returns after 15 years and knocks on the very door she slammed. She’s back because she needs something. [Read more…]
