- 96 pages
- English
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Nora : A Doll's House
About this book
'You've lies in the whites of your eyes, Nora. What have you done…?'
Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days, Nora must fight to protect herself and her family or risk losing everything.
Henrik Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new version by Stef Smith reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women's suffrage, the Swinging Sixties and the modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past hundred years?
Nora: A Doll's House was first produced by the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 2019, at Tramway, Glasgow. A new production opened at the Young Vic, London, in February 2020.
It was a finalist for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded annually to celebrate women who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.
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DAY ONE
NORA 1 | A woman walks into her home. It’s warm and welcoming, unlike outside where there is ice on the ground and snow in the air and not far from here a river has slowed down to a standstill. The woman enters her home and her hands and heart thaw. She enters her home and her breath changes from a ghostly swirl to being unnoticeable. She enters her home and there is a particular smell that hits the back of her throat, lavender. A scent that covers the smell of carpets and children and milk and medicine and sweat and sick and shit and sex and sin and… lavender. Years ago, she decided she wanted her whole life to smell of lavender and so, it does. The smell helps keep her calm as she drags in the Christmas tree. It’s a little sad looking, a little sullen looking. She haggled the man down to half-price and then gave him a touch more as a tip. Even though she shouldn’t have, even though she doesn’t have it to spend on a tip, she did. Kindness comes back around, she thought as she dragged the dead-looking spruce through the streets. She dragged it across six crossings with a stack of shopping bags slung over her shoulder and a smile on her face. And the whole time she hummed in a note slightly too high for her voice, so that by the time she was home her throat was burning. Though she quite liked that feeling of fire happening inside of her. It kept her going as she dragged the crumbling Christmas tree up the stairs to her house. Bump. Bump. Bump / |
NORA 2 | A woman walks into her home. It’s warm and welcoming, unlike outside where there is ice on the ground and snow in the air and not far from here a river has slowed down to a standstill. The woman enters her / |
NORA 3 | A woman walks into her home. It’s warm and welcoming, unlike outside where there is ice on the ground and snow in the air and not far from here a river has slowed down to a / |
NORA ... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Characters
- Nora : A Doll’s House
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information