Video recording of A Doll's House
You can access the whole production of Young Vic's 2012 production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House on the website and paid subscription Digital Theatre+.
Digital Theatre+ is your Netflix of theatre. You are most welcome to watch the various performances on it.
A Doll’s House, play in three acts by Henrik Ibsen, published in Norwegian as Et dukkehjem in 1879 and performed the same year. The play centres on an ordinary family—Torvald Helmer, a bank lawyer, and his wife, Nora, and their three little children. Torvald supposes himself the ethical member of the family, while his wife assumes the role of the pretty and irresponsible little woman in order to flatter him. Into this arrangement intrude several hard-minded outsiders, one of whom threatens to expose a fraud that Nora had once committed without her husband’s knowledge in order to obtain a loan needed to save his life. When Nora’s act is revealed, Torvald reacts with outrage and repudiates her out of concern for his own social reputation. Utterly disillusioned about her husband, whom she now sees as a hollow fraud, Nora declares her independence of him and their children and leaves them, slamming the door of the house behind her.
"A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen // Animated Book Summary." YouTiube, uploaded by The Book Tutor, 29 Sept. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UtfxttRA0 s. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
The editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "A Doll's House." Britannica, 3 Jan. 2025, www.britannica.com/topic/A-Dolls-House. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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After Nora slammed the door and walked out on Torvald and her family in Ibsen's A Doll's House, Hnath has created a play which takes place 15 years later when Nora comes back to get her divorce...
Optional read of the whole play.