Stage Reading 4 - a Doll's House
When
Approximate running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
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Event Notes
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. As Nora reflects on her life, she comes to a shocking and unlikely conclusion. Perhaps Ibsen’s most famous piece, A Doll’s House was written in 1879 and performed that same year.
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