A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2

Presented by Stage West
Runs through 11/25/2018

It was the door slam that shook theatrical history. In Henrik Ibsen’s seminal play, “A Doll’s House”, the character of Nora comes to the realization that the world of 19th Century Norwegian society has no place for her. She has no legal standing apart from her husband (even the children she gave birth to are property of the husband and are not really hers), no money apart from her husband, and has no part to play other than being a piece of social decoration with no personality of her own – a doll. Faced with this, Nora Decides to turn her back on her husband and children and leaves, shutting the door with a sound that still echoes today.

“A Doll’s House, Part 2” by Lucas Hnath begins with ...

THE LADY FROM THE SEA

Presented by Undermain Theatre
Runs through 12/2/2018

“…late Ibsen symbolism is laced with irony. Indeed, the whole play can be seen as an exploration of the several meanings attaching to the word ‘freedom’”. Michael Billington Thanks to the Undermain Theatre, Dallas has the opportunity to enjoy one of Henrik Ibsen’s seldom produced plays, The Lady from the Sea. This is not your typical Ibsen buried in unending gloom, but different in many ways that will intrigue and even startle modern audiences. Amazingly relevant about women’s issues for a play that was written in 1888, it is, as Helen Epstein says, “…a blend of domestic realism, symbolism, myth, and folktale, a drama about the varieties of love, marriage and its alternatives for women, psychological obsession, free will, and the opposing attractions of land ...