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The Vaughans are all set to enjoy Christmas. Thomas has been promoted and Nora is delighted. Everything at last seems to be going right, until a visitor arrives uninvited and causes them to question just how perfect their marriage is.
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House caused outrage both in its style and subject matter when first staged in 1879. Zinnie Harris’s retelling is played against the backdrop of British politics at the turn of the last century – to revel a world where duty, power and hypocrisy rule.
Zinnie Harris’s version of A Doll’s House premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in May 2009.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and playwright, was one of the shapers of modern theatre, who tempered naturalism with an understanding of social responsibility and individual psychology. His earliest major plays, Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867), were large-scale verse dramas, but with Pillars of the Community (1877) he began to explore contemporary issues. There followed A Doll’s House (1879),…
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