The international program of the Ivan Vazov National Theatre #StageWithoutBorders presents:
City Theatre - Ljubljana (MGL), Ljubljana, Slovenia, with the production:
by Henrik Ibsen
Director:
Nela Vitošević
Dramaturg:
Petra Pogorevc
Set designer:
Urša Vidic
Costume designer:
Tina Bonča
Slovenian translation:
Darko Čuden
Language consultant:
Martin Vrtačnik
Lighting designer:
Boštjan Kos
Sound designer:
Gašper Zidanič
Assistant to dramaturg:
Manca Lipoglavšek
Photographer:
Peter-Giodani
It seems that Nora is a happily married mother of three. After years of sacrifice, her family is about to have a comfortable life as her husband Torvald Helmer gets a job as a bank manager. Everything would be fine, if Nora were not haunted by a reckless deed she committed in the past out of love for her husband. To enable him to recover when he was seriously ill, she forged a signature and borrowed a large sum of money from the public notary Krogstad, who now blackmails her and threatens to expose her secret.
Nora desperately wants Torvald to understand the reasons for her actions and to stand by her at the moment of disclosure. But when the opposite happens, she sees him in a new light and realises that she can no longer live with him.
Nora or A Doll’s House is one of the most famous and most often performed plays by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It caused an outrageous scandal when it was first performed at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen in 1879. With it, the playwright critically raised the issue of the patriarchal model of a bourgeois family and articulated a woman’s right to choose to shake off her submissive role in marriage. The focus of his interest is Nora’s inner growth, associated with her rebellion against the social norms that prevent her from acting according to her own will, judgement and conscience. Nora, in her own way, is still present today in many texts dealing with power relations between man and woman, because she was the first female heroine in the history of European literature and theatre to demand equality between the sexes
CAST:
Ajda Smrekar, Matej Puc, Jernej Gašperin, Mojca Funkl/Nina Rakovec, Jaka Lah/Jurij Drevenšek k. g.
The guest performance is part of the exchange between the Ivan Vazov National Theatre and City Theatre Ljubljana (MGL), Slovenia.
