Henrik Ibsen
Nora
It seems that Nora is a happily married mother of three. After years of sacrifice, her family is about to have a comfortable life as her husband Torvald Helmer gets a job as a bank manager. Everything would be fine, if Nora were not haunted by a reckless deed she committed in the past out of love for her husband. To enable him to recover when he was seriously ill, she forged a signature and borrowed a large sum of money from the public notary Krogstad, who now blackmails her and threatens to expose her secret.
Nora desperately wants Torvald to understand the reasons for her actions and to stand by her at the moment of disclosure. But when the opposite happens, she sees him in a new light and realises that she can no longer live with him.
Et dukkehjem, 1879
Drama
Premiere: 3. March 2023
Performance length is 2 hours and 0 minutes and has no pause.
Creators
Translator
Darko Čuden
Director
Nela Vitošević
Dramaturg
Petra Pogorevc
Set designer
Urša Vidic
Costume designer
Tina Bonča
Language consultant
Martin Vrtačnik
Lighting designer
Boštjan Kos
Sound designer
Gašper Zidanič
Assistant to dramaturg
Manca Lipoglavšek
Actors
Nora Helmer
Ajda Smrekar
Torvald Helmer
Matej Puc
Nils Krogstad
Jernej Gašperin
Kristine Linde
Mojca Funkl
Nina Rakovec
Dr. Rank
Jurij Drevenšek k. g.
Nora or A Doll’s House is one of the most famous and most often performed plays by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It caused an outrageous scandal when it was first performed at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen in 1879. With it, the playwright critically raised the issue of the patriarchal model of a bourgeois family and articulated a woman’s right to choose to shake off her submissive role in marriage. The focus of his interest is Nora’s inner growth, associated with her rebellion against the social norms that prevent her from acting according to her own will, judgement and conscience. Nora, in her own way, is still present today in many texts dealing with power relations between man and woman, because she was the first female heroine in the history of European literature and theatre to demand equality between the sexes
Opening in February 2023 on the Main Stage