A Doll’s House Performances

Nora, the devoted wife of Torvald gets into trouble over a loan that she took out to take her husband to Italy for his health. A man named Krogstad is threatening to expose her forgery of her father’s signature if she doesn’t help him save his job at the bank her husband works at. Nora tries to find a way out of the situation, even asking for help from her visiting friend Mrs. Linde. Mrs. Linde has a past relationship with Krogstad and now that she is widowed rekindles their love. Although Mrs. Linde can get Krogstad to take his letter back threatening Nora, she tells him not to. Torvald sees the letter explaining Nora’s forgery and is livid. He tells Nora she is no longer fit to raise their children and that she is morally corrupt. Even after a second letter from Krogstad giving back the original note for the loan and saying he is no longer a threat to Nora or Torvald, all is not well. Nora has realized she no longer wants to live as Torvald’s “doll” of a wife and decides she must leave with “the doorslam heard round the world.”

This play is considered the birth of Modern theater and started a whole revolution of the theater experience.