9 Nov 2024

Lucas Hnath: Reimagining Ibsen, and Hillary Clinton

From Saturday Morning, 11:06 am on 9 November 2024
Playwright Lucas Hnath.

Playwright Lucas Hnath Photo: Rebecca Martinez

Multi-award-winning American playwright Lucas Hnath's Broadway play A Doll's House, Part 2 picks up after Henrik Ibsen's revolutionary 1879 play A Doll's House ends.

In Hnath's reimagining, the main character Nora returns home fifteen years after she famously walked out on her husband and children, shattering societal expectations of womanhood.

A production of A Doll's House, Part 2 will play at the Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre from 14 November - 1 December, presented by Plumb Theatre.

Hnath's 2016 play Hillary and Clinton is set in an alternative universe, inspired by the 2008 Iowa Democratic presidential caucus, with Hillary played by African-American actors.

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