The Helmer’s conventional marriage is shaken to the foundations by the revelation of long-kept secrets. Nora’s journey from pretty girl-wife to self-determining woman is one of the theatre’s defining stories.
Ibsen’s most famous play still makes an eloquent plea for the equality of individuals 130 years after its first explosive performance.
Directed by Alistair Ganley
Performances at 7.30pm, Saturday matinee at 2pm. First night only at the Cygnet Theatre – pay what you can on the door
It is 1892 and dashing Oxford undergraduates, Jack and Charley are preparing to propose to Amy and Kitty, but a chaperone is needed or the girls will refuse their lunch invitation.
As luck would have it, Charley’s Aunt is arriving from Brazil (where the nuts come from) and will happily serve the purpose. However, a telegram declares that her trip is delayed so their plans are in disarray until they hit upon the idea that Lord Fancourt Babberley, their good friend, should put on a frock and assume her identity.
But, madness ensues when Charley’s real aunt from Brazil (where...
