Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and
everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past
comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of
three days, Nora must fight to protect herself and her family or risk
losing everything.
Henrik Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was
first performed in 1879. This bold new version by Stef Smith reframes
the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women's
suffrage, the Swinging Sixties and the modern day intertwine in this
urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past
hundred years?
Nora: A Doll's House was first produced by the Citizens Theatre,
Glasgow, in 2019, at Tramway, Glasgow. A new production opened at the
Young Vic, London, in February 2020.
It was a finalist for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded
annually to celebrate women who have written works of outstanding
quality for the English-speaking theatre.