About This Show
First performed in Copenhagen in 1879. Christmas Eve. Excitement and love filled the Helmer’s apartment. Nora is her husband’s cherished ‘songbird’ and the romance of their marriage has been played out over the years. But beneath the carefree surface of their lives, the secret of how Nora saved her husband’s life begins to emerge. Tension increases as the characters react against one another and this taut and gripping drama ends as Nora demands her right to individual freedom. One of the great landmark plays of the nineteenth century.
India. 1879. Can a wife break free from the shackles of societal expectations? This striking reimaging of Ibsen’s classic play is set in Calcutta during British colonialist rule. Niru, a young Bengali woman, is married to English bureaucrat Tom. To him, she is a prize possession, a doting wife whose purpose is to serve. But when she takes agency of her own, how will he respond?
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