With a knock at the door, Nora is launched back into a household she helped burn to the ground 15 years before. But even after all this time, family ties cinch tighter than expected, and she discovers that confronting people she hurt in the past takes courage. Also helpful: a good sense of humor and a strong sense of self. Fortunately, Nora ticks all those boxes. A provocative and surprisingly funny debate about the roles people choose to play, and those they feel forced into; a conversation with 140 years of momentum behind it.
Runs October 24 – November 17. Opens October 26.

FEATURING Sarah Day, Jim DeVita, Colleen Madden, Melisa Pereyra

Synopsis

15 years after the events that took place in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, we return to the Helmer home to see all the things that have changed, and all the things that haven’t. A fast-paced and contemporary sequel that answers all your questions, and also stands perfectly well on its own.

Nora Returns - 'A Doll's House, Part 2' is a complex and compassionate conclusion to a timeless story
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Director's Note

Nora’s got some explaining to do... I know.

But...

TORVALD
It's just so hard

NORA
what's so—?

TORVALD
all of this.
Being with people

That is the simple truth. And this is a play about trying to be ALL
of ourselves...with each other. And to be all ourselves we have to
know all ourselves - the good, the bad and the ugly.

But to be wholly ourselves, naked and vulnerable and honest...and
to be seen and to see each other is a holy act. I believe that. That is
why this play is so powerful, so relevant and so true.

It is hard to be with people...

But we’ve got to keep working on it. Even with those we hurt and
are hurt by. And if we can do that, we have done something,
I think.
—Brenda DeVita