A Doll's House

July 20 – 31
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Paul Walsh
directed by Sam Gold

Nora Helmer has everything an affluent housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, a bright future.  When a carelessly buried secret rises to the surface, her well-calibrated, though artificial, domestic ideal begins to crumble.  Terrified by this new reality, Nora must choose between outward perfection and inner truth.  Still bracingly relevant, Ibsen’s masterpiece, in a striking contemporary translation, offers no safer conclusions today than when it stormed stages of 19th-century Europe.

Josh Hamilton
Zainab Jah
Matthew Maher
Lily Rabe
Adam Rothenberg
Lili Taylor

"...a performance that effectively blends transparent emotion and incisive intelligence..."
New York Times - Charles Isherwood

"Rabe's performance is so electric and and generates such a forcefield around her..."
Boston Globe - Don Aucoin

"You'll rave for Rabe"
New York Post - Elizabeth Vincentelli

"...Sam Gold's clear-eyed direction..."
TheatreMania - Sandy McDonald

"...a powerful and well-done production..."
Bennington Banner - Mark E. Rondeau

"One more delicious and satisfying classic in the Nikos..."
Berkshire Review - Michael Miller

"Rabe finds a real path to and through her character and the journey is fascinating"
Albany Times Union - Michael Eck