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| Andy DeCarlo and Amy Ryan photo by Rodney Rickard/Cody Dull |
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"At the end of Henrik Ibsen's classic 19th century drama A Doll's House, Nora Helmer slams the front door of her house shut as she walks out on her husband and three children with her future uncertain. At the beginning of Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2, written more than 100 years after Ibsen's play, it's fifteen years later when Nora comes back through the door and we finally found out what happened to her. With a talented cast and sure-footed direction, Stage Left Productions presents the Phoenix premiere of Hnath's 2017 play in a captivating production that is both funny and dramatic. However, while it is well written and the aspects of the play are incredibly interesting, the fact that the sequel has characters and situations that are relatively the same as in the original drama may make you question what the point is of Hnath's sequel....Cody Dull's direction is crisp and clear with solid performances from his cast. As Nora, Amber Ryan does a very good job of portraying the wide range of emotions and character traits that Nora encounters, from frustration to happiness, anger to acceptance...While not much has changed as far as how women were treated and how the characters behave in the fifteen years that passed between the time periods of the two plays, Hnath sill manages to create some complex situations. He also echoes the same message that Ibsen did, but with an even stronger voice: that women shouldn't be defined by how society limits them or how their marriage narrowly defines them. Though A Doll's House, Part 2 may not become a classic like Ibsen's drama, and it's a lot of talk for a minimal payoff, that's a message well worth repeating." -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
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