The Door Slam Heard ‘Round the World: Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”

The Door Slam Heard ‘Round the World: Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”

Released Tuesday, 29th July 2025
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The Door Slam Heard ‘Round the World: Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”

The Door Slam Heard ‘Round the World: Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”

The Door Slam Heard ‘Round the World: Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”

The Door Slam Heard ‘Round the World: Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”

Tuesday, 29th July 2025
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Nora Helmer begins Act I as a devoted wife to her respectable husband, Torvald, and a devoted mother to her young children. She ends Act III by walking out on all of them and closing the door behind her. The emotional distance covered in these three acts (representing a span of just a few days in the lives of the Helmers) makes Nora one of the greatest and most coveted acting challenges in the theater. How might we mark out a route between the Nora of Act I, the charming toy of the men in her life who seems to desire nothing more than the comfort and ease her husband’s recent promotion is set to provide, and the Nora of Act III, an independent woman willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of her own self-determination? Wes & Erin discuss Henrik Ibsen’s "A Doll’s House."

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