Henrik Ibsen's Nora Is Back and She's Got Some Shit to Say

by Chase BurnsA Doll's House, Part 2 makes its PNW debut at Seattle Repertory Theatre on March 15.Cassandra Swan
Modern theater started with the slamming of a door.
That's what they say, at least. The door slams two hours into A Doll's House, by the 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The character slamming the door is Nora Helmer. She's just had an epiphany: Her marriage sucks and she hates being a mother. Her happiness is a lie, built on top of other lies. Her husband pleads for he