Reviews"Welcome back, Nora. A terrific explosively funny new play, and an audacious Broadway debut for Lucas Hnath." --David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, An incredibly enjoyable play...The true triumph of A Doll's House, Part 2 is its refreshingly feminist political message., Humor abounds in Hnath's creative sequel...His script is an irreverent yet respectful take on the source material...A worthy companion piece to the original, A Doll's House, Part 2 is an imaginative postscript to a well-loved standard., Lucid and absorbing... A Doll's House, Part 2 judiciously balances conflicting ideas about freedom, love and responsibility., Provocative, funny and, ultimately, generous...A Doll's House, Part 2 demonstrates just how imposing is that big doorway Nora walked through once upon a time, and the guts it takes to keep walking through it, again and again., "An endlessly stimulating, whiplash producing, lightning-bolt of a play." -- Charles Isherwood, Broadway News, Welcome back, Nora. A terrific explosively funny new play, and an audacious Broadway debut for Lucas Hnath., "I adore A Doll's House, Part 2. The breakthrough play that Broadway has been waiting for." -- Peter Marks, Washington Post, Hnath has written one of this year's best plays... The focus is on the collision of viewpoints. Freedom versus responsibility, attachment versus solitude, domestic stability versus individual growth--these subjects are thrashed out in the explosive context of gender and social class.
Dewey Decimal812.6
Synopsis"Smart, funny and utterly engrossing...This unexpectedly rich sequel reminds us that houses tremble and sometimes fall when doors slam, and that there are living people within, who may be wounded or lost...Mr. Hnath has a deft hand for combining incongruous elements to illuminating ends." --Ben Brantley, New York Times It has been fifteen years since Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, when a knock comes at that same door. It is Nora, and she has returned with an urgent request. What will her sudden return mean to those she left behind? Lucas Hnath's funny, probing, and bold play is both a continuation of Ibsen's complex exploration of traditional gender roles, as well as a sharp contemporary take on the struggles inherent in all human relationships across time., "I adore A Doll's House, Part 2. The breakthrough play that Broadway has been waiting for." -- Peter Marks, Washington Post, Fifteen years after Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, a knock comes at that same door. It is Nora, and she has returned with an urgent request. However, before Nora can get what she needs, she must reckon with the people she left in her wake, who have some choice words for the former Mrs. Helmer. Lucas Hnath's funny, probing, and bold new play is at once a continuation of Ibsen's complex exploration of traditional gender roles while also creating a sharp contemporary take on the struggles inherent in all human relationships.
LC Classification NumberPS3608.N38D65 2018