After the success of Antigone-Kreon-Oidipous and Al mijn zonen (Theaterfestival 2011), Thibaud Delpeut now launches Nora as the latest advance in his quest for a modern approach to drama classics. Halina Reijn, who already proved herself as a virtuoso interpreter of Ibsen's world, assumes the title role.

Torvald Helmer (Thomas Ryckewaert) and his wife Nora (Halina Reijn) appear to lead an ideal life at first sight and seem to be perfectly happy. The outward appearance of their model marriage only reinforces its success. That is, until an unfortunate incident from Nora's past suddenly surfaces and threatens to cast a slur on Helmer's career. Helmer's love for Nora then vanishes as rapidly as it was conceived. His fierce reaction opens Nora's eyes. Her world collapses like a doll's house.

With Nora (A Doll's House) Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828 -- 1906) wrote a classic about a young woman who comes to the realisation that she spent her entire life in the service of other people. She tries to break with her husband and prevalent conventional expectations, only to end up in a maelstrom of confusion bordering on schizophrenia. Nora breaks away from the society that formed her, but the cracks have penetrated deep into her own identity. Ibsen is regarded as the founder of modern realistic drama and contributed several masterpieces to the world's repertoire with works such as The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler and Nora (A Doll's House).

Thibaud Delpeut (1978) studied clinical psychology and received his director's training in Amsterdam. His great breakthrough was in 2007 with Racine's Britannicus and Antigone-Kreon-Oidipous after Sophocles (2009). He uses his idiosyncratic take on drama classics to create tightly composed and fiercely realistic plays for a wide audience. After Blasted (Sarah Kane) and his own creation Night, Delpeut closed off a triptych about war and violence with Miller's Al mijn Zonen (also performed by TGA in season 12|13). Nora is Thibaut Delpeut's first performance in the great hall.

Plays directed by Delpeut are characterised by the central position of people and their dilemmas, choices and search for meaning. Lurking just beneath the surface is always the question why the world is the way it is and why living together -- in terms of both personal life and community life -- is often so complicated.

Characters
halina reijn - nora
thomas ryckewaert - torvald helmer
eelco smits - dr. rank
bart slegers - krogstad
janni goslinga - kristine linde

This season Toneelgroep Amsterdam will be providing English surtitles for all her Thursday evening performances in the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. Surtitles during performances of TA are projected as close to the actors as possible and are always controlled manually, making it easy to follow the action for visitors who do not understand Dutch.

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