A Doll's House Opens at Lyric Hammersmith
First play in new Artistic Director Rachel O'Riordan's inaugural season
A new production of Ibsen's famous play A Doll's House has opened at The Lyric Hammersmith.
This new version moves the action from Norway to Calcutta in 1879, with writer Tanika Gupta reimagining Ibsen’s classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, and offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race.
Niru, played by Anjana Vasan, is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat – Tom.
Tom, played by Elliott Cowan, loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept. But Niru has a long-kept secret. And just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her.
A Doll's House launches the Lyric's 2019/2020 programme - the inaugural season for the theatre's new Artistic Director Rachel O'Riordan, who is also making her directorial debut with this play.
The season will continue in 2019 with Solaris, a new play by David Greig and of course the Lyric's ever-popular panto, which this year will be Cinderella along with Raymond Briggs' beloved Father Christmas for the little ones.
Looking ahead to 2020, the line-up will be Love, Love, Love, with Rachel O'Riordan directing Mike Bartlett's award-winning play; Sophocles' Antigone: The Burial at Thebes, with Roy Alexander Weise (Nine Night)
directing a new production of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's translation and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, headlining the Autumn 2020 season, with Rachel
O'Riordan directing Martin McDonagh's darkly comic play.
A Doll's House runs till 5 October. Find out more and book tickets here or call the box office on 020 8741 6850.
September 13, 2019