{"product_id":"a-dolls-house-simon-stephens-version","title":"A Doll's House (Simon Stephens version)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen, the second in a series of realist plays by Ibsen, and immediately provoked controversy with its apparently feminist message and exposure of the hypocrisy of Victorian middle-class marriage. In Ibsen's play, Nora Helmer has secretly (and deceptively) borrowed a large sum of money to pay for her husband, Torvald, to recover from illness on a sabbatical in Italy. Torvald's perception of Nora is of a silly, naive spendthrift, so it is only when the truth begins to emerge, and Torvald appreciates the initiative behind his wife, that unmendable cracks appear in their marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compelling new version of Ibsen's masterpiece by playwright Simon Stephens premiered at the Young Vic Theatre, London, on 29 June 2012. It was updated with minor changes in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BuyBooks.ie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54076022948182,"sku":"A165975","price":22.31,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0552\/4327\/6339\/files\/9781472526410.jpg?v=1780420870","url":"https:\/\/www.buybooks.ie\/products\/a-dolls-house-simon-stephens-version","provider":"BuyBooks.ie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}