A Doll House

Written by Henrik Ibsen

Narrated by Calista Flockhart, Gregory Itzin, Jeannie Elias and 3 more

Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen’s play is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater, UCLA in September, 2011.

• Director: Rosalind Ayres
• Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
• Calista Flockhart as Nora Helmer
• Tony Abatemarco as Dr. Rank
• Tim DeKay as Torvald Helmer
• Jeannie Elias as Anne-Marie/Helene
• Gregory Itzin as Nils Krogstad
• JoBeth Williams as Mrs. Linde

Associate Producer: Christina Montaño. Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo. Editor: Wes Dewberry

• Language: English
• Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
• Release date: May 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781580818797

Henrik Ibsen

Born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet, often associated with the early Modernist movement in theatre. Determined to become a playwright from a young age, Ibsen began writing while working as an apprentice pharmacist to help support his family. Though his early plays were largely unsuccessful, Ibsen was able to take employment at a theatre where he worked as a writer, director, and producer. Ibsen’s first success came with Brand and Peter Gynt, and with later plays like A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and The Master Builder he became one of the most performed playwrights in the world, second only to William Shakespeare. Ibsen died in his home in Norway in 1906 at the age of 78.

Reviews for A Doll House

[MitraSalehi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A woman’s heart... very beautifully written and great performance ??

[Alice Coghlan · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

One size fits all acting, if you've heard one LATW you've heard them all, in this case Yorvald is simplified into Homer Simpson, but better than Librivox.