Opening the 2024 season is Lucas Hnath’s invigorating play, A Doll’s House Part 2, directed by Amanda Goodwin. With Shelley Hartle, Jeff Natter, Aleah Stacey and Patricia Duff.
In the final scene of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, A Doll’s House, 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 Lucas Hnath’s 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?