This play was written (if I truly was paying attention and heard correctly) in the late 19th century and was originally a three hour play with 3 acts. I’m really glad that it was shortened to an hour and five minutes; not to say I didn’t like it. I think it had to deal with feminism or naturalism. The play, overall, had a good plot. It was almost like a “soap opera- like” story line.
A young woman named Nora, I believe, had to forge papers to protect her dead father and she was trying to keep it a secret. Nora’s husband, Torvald, finds out later on in the play and goes ballistic. He was yelling at her about how she should be ashamed of herself for lying and acting silly and childish or something like that. (I didn’t stay awake for most of the play because I’d only gotten around 3 hours of sleep the night before. It’s a long story.) The couple was arguing for at least 10 minutes. The husband was arguing how she was wrong for forging papers and Nora was justifying her actions and how she didn’t have much of a choice. She was simply just trying to protect her father and besides, what’s a young girl to do?
I liked the play as a whole. It would’ve been a bit better if there were props and scenery and the colored lights and all that other nice stuff. I just don’t know why they had a man play the role of the maid, Helena. I was almost dosing off during Act 1 when Nora called for Helena and this guy answered. It bugged me out a bit. It caused me to stay up for about another 20 minutes.