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A Doll's House review " sex, drugs and Romola Garai in a heroic Ibsen update

by Arifa Akbar

Almeida theatre, LondonAnya Reiss packs the marriage scandal plot with inspired ideas, from convincing talk of Instagram to a look at sexual dynamics in the crosshairs of contemporary capitalism Who would Henrik Ibsen's Nora be in 21st-century Britain? Would her husband, Torvald still be a bank manager and she his "little squirrel" housewife? Transposing this drama of 19th-century proto-feminism into the present day …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:24am on April 11, 2026