A Doll House, Henrik Ibsen
A Doll House, Henrik Ibsen
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A Doll House

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Narrator: Calista Flockhart, Gregory Itzin, Jeannie Elias, JoBeth Williams, Tim Dekay, Tony Abatemarco

Unabridged: 2 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2012

Synopsis

Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen’s play is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe.Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater, UCLA in September, 2011.Director: Rosalind AyresProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergCalista Flockhart as Nora HelmerTony Abatemarco as Dr. RankTim DeKay as Torvald HelmerJeannie Elias as Anne-Marie/HeleneGregory Itzin as Nils KrogstadJoBeth Williams as Mrs. LindeAssociate Producer: Christina Montaño. Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo. Editor: Wes Dewberry

About Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) was a major nineteenth-century Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet. He is often referred to as “the father of prose drama” and is one of the founders of modernism in the theater. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder. Several of his plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theater was required to model strict mores of family life and propriety. Ibsen’s work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on April 29, 2016

Imagine what it would be like to live in a doll’s house: it's a house in which you are controlled and have no power to make any strong decisions; it's a house in which you are a play thing for someone else’s entertainment. This sounds a lot like a bad marriage, so it's a house in which your husband......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 28, 2024

As many international news outlets have reported*, it is no secret that my reading form has taken a hit lately. To the extent that my income from my reviews on the Dark Web has not been sufficient to support my lifestyle. Enter one of my heroes Henrik Ibsen, one of his plays will sort me out, and sor......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on April 14, 2018

This is the story of a marriage that superficially seems happy, but a critical turn of events reveals a sham relationship. Torvald and Nora Helmer, who've had some financial struggles, are delighted because Torvald has gotten major promotion at the bank where he works. But Nora, behind her lightheart......more

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