Directed by Tony-winner Sam Gold, a wildly inventive new American play that picks up after Henrik Ibsen's most cherished work concludes, A Doll's House, Part 2 will boast an all-star cast that features three-time Emmy Award-winner and three-time Tony Award-nominee Laurie Metcalf, Academy Award-winner Chris Cooper, Tony Award-winner Jayne Houdyshell and two-time Tony Award-nominee Condola Rashad.
In the final scene of Ibsen's 1879 ground-breaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life on her own. This climactic event - when Nora slams the door on everything in her life - instantly propelled world drama into the modern age. In A Doll's House, Part 2, many years have passed since Nora's exit. Now, there's a knock on that same door. Nora has returned. But why? And what will it mean for those she left behind?
One of the most famous exits in modern drama prompts an entrance that bristles with tension, provocation and unexpected subversive humor in Lucas Hnath's terrific new play, A Doll's House, Part 2. After acquiring a rising-star reputation with spiky works like The Christians, about evangelical megachurches, and Red Speedo, about doping in professional sports, Hnath makes an audacious Broadway debut with this pithy sequel. It delivers explosive laughs while also posing thoughtful questions about marriage, gender inequality and human rights that reverberate across the almost 140 years since Henrik Ibsen's original was first produced in 1879.
You wouldn't think that a continuation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House - a groundbreaking, 1879 feminist drama about a wife who leaves an unhappy marriage to find herself - would be funny, but humor abounds in playwright Lucas Hnath's creative sequel. Directed by Sam Gold, A Doll's House, Part 2 imagines what would happen if, 15 years later, Ibsen's Nora were to walk back through the door she exited at the close of his third act. At the time, Ibsen's decision to have his protagonist abdicate her marital and familial responsibilities in favor of self-discovery and personal happiness was a shocking one, seen as a threat to the institution of marriage as a whole; Hnath's script supposes that the fictional Nora has been confronted with similar accusations as her creator, and deals with them in head-on, often gleeful fashion.
2017 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
2018 | Regional (US) |
Barrington Stage Company Production Regional (US) |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2017 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Laurie Metcalf |
2017 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Jayne Houdyshell |
2017 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Laurie Metcalf |
2017 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | A Doll's House, Part 2 |
2017 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Laurie Metcalf |
2017 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Jayne Houdyshell |
2017 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Play | A Doll's House, Part 2 |
2017 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Play | David Zinn |
2017 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Sam Gold |
2017 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Play | Jennifer Tipton |
2017 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Chris Cooper |
2017 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Jayne Houdyshell |
2017 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Condola Rashad |
2017 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Laurie Metcalf |
2017 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Lucas Hnath |
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