What inspired Stef Smith to write Nora: A Doll's House?

We caught up with Stef Smith ahead of the Young Vic run of Nora: A Doll's House to find out a little more about her writing inspiration and processes.

Production Photos by Marc Brenner

NORA: A DOLL'S HOUSE
A radical new version of Henrik Ibsen’s play by Stef Smith
Directed by Elizabeth Freestone
At the Young Vic from 5 Feb - 21 Mar 2020
Find out more & book tickets: https://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/nor...

A Young Vic and Citizens Theatre co-production

‘You’ve lies in the whites of your eyes, Nora. What have you done…?’

Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days, Nora must fight to protect herself and her family or risk losing everything.

Ibsen’s brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new production of Stef Smith’s acclaimed new play was originally produced at Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women’s suffrage, the swinging sixties and modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past 100 years?

With Mark Arends, Natalie Klamar, Luke Norris, Amaka Okafor, Anna Russell-Martin, Zephryn Taitte