Jayne Houdyshell plays Anne Marie in A Doll's House, Part 2 on Broadway. A Doll's House Part 2. -- Adam Feldman ― Time Out New York. In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life on her own. Playwright Lucas Hnath Directed by Joanie Schultz Featuring Christina Baldwin. With unfussy eloquence, A Doll's House, Part 2 asks how much, in a century-plus, life has changed for Nora and women like her in a world that often still has firm ideas about where they belong. Perhaps this make the play sound rather dry and intellectual. A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 runs Fridays and Saturdays May 8, 9, 15, & 16 at 8 pm and Sundays matinees May 10 & 17 at 2 pm, in the Crystal Ballroom at the Ashland Springs Hotel. Plays about beds and bathtubs, armchairs and kitchen sinks. A Doll's House and A Doll's House Part Two are being performed in repertory. Those rapping knuckles? Though Hnath revives, Ibsen’s denunciation of bourgeois marriage, he doesn’t necessarily support its door-slamming alternative. Limited smoking onstage. Yes, Hnath offers a morsel of plot – documents and blackmail attempts, just as in the original – but most audience nails will go unbitten. His scenes, typically structured as two-character conversations between Nora and Torvald (Chris Cooper), Nora and her daughter (Condola Rashad), Nora and her former nanny (Jayne Houdyshell), read as answers to an interior FAQ: what would bring Nora back? A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath is a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking 1879 play A Doll’s House. The play’s sophisticated arguments about what we owe to ourselves and to each other, about how liberation can become illiberal are welcome mat enough. Please follow the schedule, below, to identify available performances. A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 By LUCAS HNATH Directed by KRISTA JACKSON. It was directed by Shelley Butler, the scenic designers were Takeshi Kata and Se Hyun Oh, the costume designer was Sara Ryung Clement, the lighting designer was Tom Ontiveros, and the sound designer was Cricket S. Myers. A thoughtful, bracing, deeply human production of Lucas Hnath’s dazzling play. Torvald, a pillar of society, is a model husband, father, and citizen. Laurie Metcalf gives a thrilling performance in a speculative follow-up to Henrik Ibsen’s defining 1879 masterwork, Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08.34 EDT. A Doll's House, Part 2 Overview - The BEST Broadway source for A Doll's House, Part 2 tickets and A Doll's House, Part 2 information, photos and videos. As in much of his work, Ibsen’s play challenged the status quo by highlighting the hypocrisy of 19th century society. review – Bette Midler is irresistible in a riotous delight, ‘... less a conventional sequel than a thought experiment inspired by the original’ ... Laurie Metcalfe in A Doll’s House Part 2. here are sofa plays and dinner table plays. Nora Returns - 'A Doll's House, Part 2' is a complex and compassionate conclusion to a timeless story By Gwendolyn Rice, The Isthmus. A Doll’s House, Part 2. His sweet household, with three darling children and Nora – his affectionate little doll of a wife – is the ideal of happy family life. Theater event by Silver Spring Stage on Friday, April 16 2021 Hnath’s play is less a conventional sequel than a thought experiment inspired by the original. Tony nominated playwright Lucas Hnath has stunned audiences with his brilliant contemporary classic, which continues Nora’s story. Luckily, Hnath, whose formally inventive plays include Isaac’s Eye and The Christians, is no mean thinker. Thu, Mar 7 - Sun, Apr 7, 2019 Pittsburgh Public Theater O'Reilly Theater Comedy; Drama; By Lucas Hnath Directed by Ted Pappas. 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