I haven't yet figured out why someone wants to take someone else's play and characters and try to keep the story going. King Lear, Part 2?? It was said at the time (1876) that when Nora slammed the door and left her husband Torvald, it was a slam heard 'round the world. A sort of early 'Women's Lib'.
In this play Hnath brings Nora back fifteen years later to try to get Torvald to sign divorce papers, which he never filed. Since Ibsen never told us what happened to Nora everything now is conjecture.
Nora and Torvald argue over all the things they should have argued over when she was still there, then she and her daughter do the same thing. In the end she walks out and slams the door again.
Laila Robins was excellent as Nora,gorgeous in a sensational purple dress.
Mary Stout nearly stole the show as Anne Marie, the nanny who raised Nora's children after she left.
Christopher Innvar was Torvald.
Ashley Bufkin was the daughter Emmy.
The set was simple. A door in the middle of the set and two chairs.
I'm not sure what Ibsen would have to say about the play. I felt it was unnecessary.
