A Doll's House
By Henrick Ibsen
In a new version by Stephen Mulrine
Director Peter Hall
Set Designer Simon Higlett
Lighting Designer Peter Mumford
Sound Designer Gregory Clarke
Costume Designer Christopher Woods
Tuesday July 8th – Saturday August 9th
Starring Catherine McCormack, Finbar Lynch and Christopher Ravenscroft
“Explosive” - Observer
Blackmail and innocence, love and hypocrisy, honour and betrayal collide in one of the most groundbreaking and celebrated plays in theatre history.
Nora thought she had the perfect life until a ghost from the past returns. Forced to confront reality, she recognises that she is little more than Torvald, her husband’s plaything, trapped by convention within a suffocating marriage. Her decision to slam the door on being a wife and mother and empower herself, is one of the iconic moments of modern drama.
In 1879, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House stunned the world and provoked outrage. One critic compared it to the “dropping of a bomb into contemporary life”.
Beautifully crafted and powerfully moving, no work better distills Ibsen’s genius.
Catherine McCormack
Finbar Lynch
Catherine McCormack’s numerous major films include Braveheart, The Land Girls, Dangerous Beauty, Spy Game, The Moon and the Stars and 28 Weeks Later. Her stage roles include All My Sons, for which she was nominated in the 2001 Olivier Awards, Honour and Dinner, all at the National Theatre and The 39 Steps in the West End and on Broadway.
Finbar Lynch’s stage roles include playing Puck in the RSC’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and most recently Pinter’s The Hothouse, a National production at the National Theatre, Edmund in King Lear and Enobarbus in Anthony and Cleopatra, also at the National Theatre. He received a Tony award nomination on Broadway for the National Theatre’s production of Tennessee Williams’s Not About Nightingales.
Christopher Ravenscroft’s many roles for the RSC include Cassius in Julius Caesar and Mountjoy in Henry V – a role he reprised in Kenneth Branagh’s film version. On television he is best known for The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.
“This astonishing masterpiece has lost none of its freshness or pertinence” – Independent
| Mon–Fri Evenings & Sat Matinee | £15.50 | £21.00 | £23.00 | £26.00 | £28.00 |
| Saturday Evening | £18.00 | £22.00 | £24.00 | £27.00 | £30.00 |
| Midweek Matinees & Sat 11am | £14.00 | £19.50 | £21.50 | £25.50 | £26.50 |
Performance Times
please see The Peter Hall Company 2008 for performance times
Described Performance: Wednesday 6 August 2.30pm
Running time: 3 hours, including 2 intervals