Ibsen's celebrated play thrust drama firmly into the modern age when it premiered in 1879. Now, nearly 150 years later, acclaimed playwright Amy Herzog makes freshly relevant a story that shocked audiences and brought forth a new era of theatre. Herzog's thrilling, compact and devastatingly contemporary adaptation runs a mere 110 minutes.

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REVIEWS:

"Shattering and exhilarating… a transfixing slow-boil take on the landmark Ibsen drama."

 The Hollywood Reporter

"Compelling… exhilarating… Herzog’s dialogue, pruning the social floweriness and conversational whorls of Ibsen’s naturalism, gets right to the point of every line, leaving the text raw and red, as if exfoliated."

 The New York Times

"Smart and captivating… Much of the credit for this enticement belongs to playwright Amy Herzog, whose adaptation of the groundbreaking 1879 marriage story gives just enough of a contemporary spin – our protagonist Nora delights at the prospect of acquiring ‘tons of money’ – without sacrificing the emotional heft or power of more traditionally rendered translations."

 Deadline

"Shattering and exhilarating… [a] transfixing slow-boil take on the landmark Ibsen drama, which builds a bridge between its original 1879 setting and the present day in Amy Herzog’s laser-focused new modern adaptation... Herzog is one of the most perceptively humanistic American playwrights to emerge in the past 15 years, her sensitivity and gift for fine-grained portraiture on display in works like After the Revolution, 4000 Miles, Belleville and Mary Jane… She deftly condenses Ibsen’s traditional three acts into an uninterrupted two hours that heighten the original playwright’s intention to show the ways in which a patriarchal society stymies women’s personhood."

 The Hollywood Reporter

Premiere Production:

Henrik Ibsen's Et dukkehjem (A Doll's House) premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 21, 1879. This adaptation of A Doll's House premiered on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on March 9, 2023. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the production featured Jessica Chastain, Arian Moayed, Jesmille Darbouze, Tasha Lawrence, Okieriete Onaodowan and Michael Patrick Thornton.