Arts at Baruch – “A Doll’s House”: Stage Reading

11/05/09 – I read “A Doll’s House” in my senior year of high school, so this stage reading brought back a lot of the discussions I had on the play in class.  I always thought that Torvald was a very pretentious character, like the way he called Nora his “little skylark”.  I also remember that I could never determine if Nora did the right thing by leaving her husband and children.  On the one hand, her search to figure out who she really is fully justified in the modern sense, yet her immature and naive behavior discredits her, especially with the whole traveling to Italy business.  In general, this workshop got me thinking about the proper roles of husband and wife.  The line that stood out to me the most was when Nora told Torvald something like, “This is the first time in the history of our marriage that we have actually sat down to have a real conversation.”  I thought about that and I decided that in whatever relationships I have I will always lay the cards on the table, I don’t want to harm people with unrealistic fantasies.  In terms of the workshop itself, I thought the actors did a very good job of taking on the personalities of the characters.  It was well done, thumbs up.