A Doll's House, Part 2
by Lucas Hnath Pangdemonium Victoria Theatre, Singapore It’s certainly audacious. To take one of the most well-known works of world drama and create an unofficial sequel, providing your own spin on its iconic characters after the space of a century. But that’s exactly what American playwright Lucas Hnath has done in A Doll’s House, Part 2 , which was staged to critical acclaim on Broadway in 2017 and now makes its Singapore debut in this Pangdemonium 2025 season opener. It continues director Timothy Koh’s penchant for lean, talky and character-driven plays such as Doubt: A Parable and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf . Henrik Ibsen's A Doll’s House famously ends with Nora Helmer walking out on her marriage and children. Tired of being treated as an inconsequential plaything by her self-absorbed, conservative husband, she chooses to break away from the strictures of the Norwegian patriarchy and fulfil a duty to herself. In Hnath’s follow-up, 15 years have passed and Nora (J...
