A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath

Overview

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House opened in 1879 ushering in modern scandal! Nora Helmer shocked theatre audiences with her infamous “door slam heard around the world,” —a door slam that terminated her relationships with her husband and children, but created space for a budding relationship with herself. Fast forward to 2017 and Lucas Hnath’s Tony nominated sequel, A Doll’s House, Part 2. Nora is back, knocking on that same door she slammed fifteen years earlier. Now, a successful, self-made writer, is Nora prepared to reckon with the family she left in her journey of self discovery? Hnath brilliantly explores the intricacies of family relationships and personal identity.

“[A] smart, funny and utterly engrossing play…” —The New York Times.

“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.” —The Hollywood Reporter.