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A Doll's House, Part 2
A Doll's House, Part 2
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Author: Lucas Hnath Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Format: Softcover # of Pages: 64 Pub. Date: 2018 ISBN-10: 082223744X ISBN-13: 9780822237440 Cast Size: 1 woman, 3 men
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About the Play:
A Doll's House, Part 2 is a full-length drama by Lucas
Hnath. Fifteen years after Nora Helmer infamously slammed the
door on her stifling domestic life, she has returned with an urgent
request. Before she can get what she needs, however, she must reckon
with the family she left in her wake. This funny, probing, and bold
sequel picks up where Ibsen's
classic left off.
A Doll's House, Part 2 picks up 15 years after the
original, a three-act lightning bolt written by playwright Henrik
Ibsen in 1879. In the final scene
of Ibsen's groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the
shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life
on her own. This climactic event – when Nora slams the door on
everything in her life – reverberated around the world, creating a
storm of controversy; much of it focused
on Ibsen's clarion call for gender equality. A Doll's
House, Part 2, wonders what
Ibsen's Nora has been up to since she slammed the door. Many
years have passed since Nora's exit. Now, there's a knock on that
same door 15 years later, as Nora returns with an urgent request,
confronting husband, daughter and the woman who raised her children.
But why? And what will it mean for those she left behind? A Doll's House, Part 2 is
at once a continuation of Ibsen's complex exploration of traditional
gender roles and a clever contemporary take on the struggles inherent
in all human relationships.
A Doll's House, Part 2 premiered in 2017 at South Coast
Repertory, two weeks before transferring to Broadway at the John
Golden Theatre, and was nominated for the 2017 Tony Award for Best
Play. Since then the play
had regional premieres at professional theatres across North
America and
has been mounted by high schools, colleges, and community theatres.
Cast: 1 woman, 3 men
What people say:
"[A] smart, funny and utterly
engrossing play… Hnath approaches what might seem like a hubristic
project with the humility and avidity of an engaged Everyreader. A
Doll's House, Part 2 gives vibrant theatrical life to the
conversations that many of us had after first reading or seeing its
prototype…." — The New York Times
"…lucid and absorbing…
Modern in its language, mordant in its humor and suspenseful in its
plotting… the play judiciously balances conflicting ideas about
freedom, love and responsibility." — Time Out NY
"Hnath's inspired writing,
which endows each character with an arsenal of fastballs, curveballs
and spitballs, keep[s] us disarmingly off-balance. He's an uncommonly
gifted parodist. For all its seriousness, A Doll's House,
Part 2 is suffused with a contagious bemusement."
— Deadline.com
"[A Doll's House,
Part 2] delivers explosive laughs while also posing
thoughtful questions about marriage, gender inequality and human
rights…as much an ingenious elaboration and deconstruction of A
Doll's House as a sequel, and it stands perfectly well on its
own…With unfussy eloquence, [the play] 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." —
Hollywood Reporter
About the Playwright:
Lucas Hnath is an
American playwright. He has been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway,
and regionally all over North
America. He has been a
resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2011. Awards include the
Kesselring Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the
Whitfield Cook Award, two Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citations,
and Outer
Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, and an Obie. |
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