The critically acclaimed Tony award-winning play A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath will come to the Baxter Theatre in Rondebosch this month.
The show, which stars Bianca Amato and Zane Meas, has enjoyed successful runs on Broadway and at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Presented by The Quickening Theatre Company, the smart, funny, freshly contemporary response to Ibsen’s classic is directed by Barbara Rubin and runs from Wednesday 16 April to Saturday 10 May at 20:00, with Saturday matinees at 15:00.
Amato returns to the South African stage to play Nora, while Meas plays Torvald. The play is directed by New York-based Rubin, who returns to her home country, and also stars Charlotte Butler and Simone Neethling.
In the iconic climax of Henrik Ibsen’s original play, written in 1879, Nora Helmer shockingly rejects the suffocating confines of her marriage, and walks out the door. We know only that she is desperate for her own becoming, to find her own truth.
Now, 15 years later, she is back, knocking on that same door, because she needs something. What has her life been like on the outside? What does she want? We relate to each character’s flawed but deeply human take on relationships and responsibility. This nuanced play debating the pros and cons of marriage is both moving and immensely entertaining – a sharp, often explosively hilarious investigation into societal expectations of love and tradition.
• Bookings for A Doll’s House Part 2 can be made online through Webtickets or at any Pick n Pay store.
