Henrik Ibsen’s Doll House

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Robert Greer, Artistic Director of August Strindberg Rep, has always longed to re-write and stage Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” into a version that Strindberg would have approved of. That is the genesis for his new adaptation, “Henrik Ibsen’s Doll House as told by August Strindberg and adapted by Robert Greer.” Theater for the New City, where Strindberg Rep is a resident company, will present this daring new proposition March 26 to April 5. In Ibsen’s 1879 drama, Nora Helmer, a devoted mother and wife of a bank manager, has secretly borrowed money to save the life of her husband, Torvald, by forging the signature of her dying father on a loan guarantee. When the lender, a man named Krogstad, threatens exposure, Nora confronts the fragility of her marriage and Torvald’s patronizing attitudes toward her. As Torvald reacts with anger, sanctimony and self-interest, Nora realizes she has been treated like a “doll” her whole life. Determined to understand herself and the world independently, she makes the shocking choice to leave her husband and children, walking out in search of autonomy.

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