Published on Oct 31, 2017

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: December 8-22, 2017

Venue: Multi-functional Theatre of NCPA

Prices: 180, 280, 380

Features: A Doll’s House is Henrik Ibsen’s most well-known masterpiece. From December 8-22, the NCPA (National Centre for the Performing Arts) drama A Doll's House will be stage in Multi-functional Theatre of NCPA in Beijing.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

A Doll’s House is Henrik Ibsen’s most well-known masterpiece. The play has exerted far-reaching impact on the development of Chinese ideology, literature and drama. LU Xun and HU Shi, two Chinese famous writers, praised Nora’s thoughts on the pursuit of personality independence and individual liberation. CAO Yu, TIAN Han and other prestigious Chinese dramatists also felt inspired by the drama. Since “Spring Willow Society of Shanghai” (a drama society) premiered canovaccio A Doll’s House for the first time in 1914, the work stands out as important testimony to the development of Chinese drama history. In 2014, to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of China Premiere for A Doll’s House, the NCPA (National Centre for the Performing Arts) produced its first drama A Doll’s House in the Multi-functional Theatre, which broughts together a top-grade crew, and shifts the emphasis from feminist ideology to marriage and family contradictions that have greater contemporary significance in view of arousing people’s present-day reflections and gives greater resonance to their lives.

Synopsis
Lawyer Helmer is just appointed as bank manager, and wishes to ride on the crest of success. His wife Nora asks him to help her classmate Christina find a job. Helmer takes the opportunity to fire the disgusting staff Krogstad, and let Cristina succeed him. But uunexpectedly a few years ago, in order to cure her husband’s disease, helpless Nora held out on Helmer, forged her father’s signature and borrowed money from Krogstad. She is inadvertently guilty of fraud. Bearing a grudge against Nora, Krogstad threatens Nora with a subpoena. When Helmer looks at Krogstad’s whistle-blowing letter, he flies into a tremendous rage, curses Nora as a “bastard”, “criminal” and “menial”, and sighs that his outlook is doomed. When Krogstad is persuaded by Christina and later quashes the subpoena, Helmer shouts joyfully: “Nora, it is over. I forgive you now.” Yet, Nora refuses to forgive her husband, since she believes he is only concerned about his social status and reputation. With the so-called “love” and “care”, he treats her as a doll, so she dashes away from home forevermore.

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