January 3&4, 2025 – Yellow Lab Productions presents a double feature presentation of a new adaptation of the theatre classic A Doll’s House and the century-plus-later sequel A Doll’s House Part 2 as one complete story. Presented as one show, A Doll’s House and A Doll’s House, Part 2 form a rich narrative about the ongoing struggle for self-definition, the costs of defying
conventions, and the complicated interplay of personal freedom and social obligations.
In “A Doll’s House,” Nora, the wife of a banker, Torvald, has a secret debt, incurred with good intentions and a forged signature. When her husband is promoted to bank manager, the threat of blackmail threatens to destroy his career and their family life together. As circumstances unravel, Nora realizes the truth of her situation and is forced to make a decision that still reverberates over a century later. 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 fresh a relevant story that shocked audiences and brought forth a new era of theatre. Herzog’s thrilling, compact and devastatingly contemporary adaptation is a shattering, exhilarating, and transfixing take on the landmark Ibsen drama.
In A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2, many years have passed since Nora’s decision, and now she has to face the consequences and fallout from that decision. A Doll’s House Part 2 delivers explosive laughs while also posing thoughtful questions about marriage, gender inequality and human rights. It is as much an elaboration and deconstruction of A Doll’s House as a sequel, and it stands perfectly well on its own…With unfussy eloquence, it asks how much, in a century-plus, life has changed for Nora and women like her in a world that often still has firm ideas about where they belong.
A Dolls’ House and A Doll’s House Part 2 are rated PG-13 for some language and mild thematic material.
