Critical Quotes

Question 1

Play is ‘about domestic revolution’ and a ‘timeless study of the need for domestic honesty and spiritual liberation’

Answer 1

Michael Billington, in The New York Times, of Carrie Cracknell’s production in 2012,

Question 2

The play’s ‘ingenious plot demonstrates that marriage is not the only cage’: illustrates how ‘any woman who dares to venture beyond the security of the place society has made for her — who tries to discover herself as a full human — will meet with disaster’

Answer 2

Jesse Green, in The New York Times

Question 3

Lloyd’s version emphasises that ‘everyone in Ibsen’s play suffers under the binding ties of patriarchy’:

Answer 3

Smallwood wrote in The New York

Question 4

The play’s ‘inner spirit’ is its inevitable truths, ‘like the idea that the key to a long-lasting marriage may be a wilful blindness to a spouse’s faults’

Answer 4

Rho da Feng review in Frieze,

Question 5

The play’s ‘reverence’ is accurately portrayed by Nora’s ‘real grief’ at the corruption of her life.

Answer 5

Review of recent production by Jamie Lloyd - The Guardian

Question 6

‘everyone in Ibsen’s play suffers under the binding ties of patriarchy’

Answer 6

Lloyd’s version emphasises this

Question 7

The play’s ‘ingenious plot demonstrates that marriage is not the only cage’: illustrates how ‘any woman who dares to venture beyond the security of the place society has made for her

Answer 7

Jesse Green, in The New York Times