A Doll’s House Part 2 This March, Bennington Theater presents A Doll’s House Part 2 – Lucas Hnath’s witty and provocative sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, imagining Nora Helmer’s return 15 years after she famously walked out on her family. The play explores the unresolved questions of freedom, love,…
Gail M. Burns: Why did you choose “A Doll’s House”? What do you think it has to say to actors and audiences today? Robin Frome: I chose A Doll’s House (or better known, as a master class entitled, “Building A Doll’s House”) because during this past winter of the pandemic…
by Roseann Cane Henrick Ibsen’s A Doll’s House famously ends with the sound of a slamming door. This caused a great ruckus in 1879. Nora Helmer, who apparently lives an ideal married life in a beautiful home with a nanny to look after her two children, a passel of servants,…
by Barbara Waldinger Henrik Ibsen is a tough act to follow. At the end of his 1879 masterpiece, A Doll’s House, audiences gasped as Nora Helmer left her husband and three children, delivering what George Bernard Shaw famously called “the door slam heard around the world,” presumably never to return.…
(Pittsfield, MA – March 6, 2018) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, announced today the addition of four special events during their upcoming 2018 season. Tickets for the 2018 Season, as well as all four special events,…
(Pittsfield, MA– January 11, 2018) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in the Berkshires (Pittsfield, MA) under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, announced today its 2018 season, which will feature three world premieres, including a major new musical from Tony Awards winners William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin,…
