‘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.
Ibsen’s brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new production reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women’s suffrage, the swinging sixties and modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past 100 years?
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.
Ibsen’s brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new production reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women’s suffrage, the swinging sixties and modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past 100 years?
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'a beautiful and explosively significant piece of theatre' ★★★★★ - The Scotsman 'an explosive couple of hours' ★★★★★ - The Herald 'a perfect adaptation' ★★★★★ - The Wee Review 'excellent adaptation' ★★★★ - The Guardian 'Smith’s update is smart and thoughtful, balancing a sense of feminist history and activism with the tightness of a thriller and some rich personal drama' ★★★★ - The Stage 'bold, exciting and gripping throughout' ★★★★ - Broadway World 'Stef Smith does an excellent job of weaving together multiple threads into a rich and absorbing tapestry which is directed with clarity and purpose by Elizabeth Freestone.’ ★★★★- Reviewsphere 'As a play, Nora is dramatic, stylish and entertaining.' - Last Year's Girl (no stars ratings given) 'director Elizabeth Freestone wonderfully acknowledges the battles women have faced over the last century' ★★★★ - Qmunicate magazine 'a radical, innovative and clever piece of theatre' ★★★★- Across the Arts 'maybe we’ve not made as much progress in the last 100 years as we would like to think.' - The Mumble (no stars ratings given) |
Images and press are from the premiere production at the The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in March of 2019.
Cast: Tim Barrow, Michael Dylan, Maryam Hamidi, Anna Russell-Martin, Molly Vevers and Daniel Ward.
Creative Team
Directed by Elizabeth Freestone
Designed by Tom Piper
Lighting Design by Lee Curran
Composer/Sound Design by Michael John McCarthy
Movement Directed by Emily-Jane Boyle
Fight Directed by Raymond Short
Assistant Directed by Joanna Bowman
Photos by Mihaela Bodlovic
Cast: Tim Barrow, Michael Dylan, Maryam Hamidi, Anna Russell-Martin, Molly Vevers and Daniel Ward.
Creative Team
Directed by Elizabeth Freestone
Designed by Tom Piper
Lighting Design by Lee Curran
Composer/Sound Design by Michael John McCarthy
Movement Directed by Emily-Jane Boyle
Fight Directed by Raymond Short
Assistant Directed by Joanna Bowman
Photos by Mihaela Bodlovic