Henley Street Theatre: A Doll’s House

Henley Street Theatre’s new production of A Doll’s House opens tonight! Nora Helmer is a vibrant, young housewife who suffers from a crippling dependency on her husband. In order to save him from a dangerous debt and spare his pride, Nora arranges a loan without his knowledge by forging a signature. Through her actions, she wakes to feelings […]

Henley Street Theatre’s new production of A Doll’s House opens tonight!

Nora Helmer is a vibrant, young housewife who suffers from a crippling dependency on her husband.

In order to save him from a dangerous debt and spare his pride, Nora arranges a loan without his knowledge by forging a signature.

Through her actions, she wakes to feelings of self-awareness and in one of the most scandalous climaxes in all of nineteenth-century drama,

Nora is forced to forge a new identity from the one she has always known.

This is part of Minds Wide Open, a statewide celebration of women in the arts.

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