Doll's House, A [Drama On 3]

TANIKA GUPTA transposes the setting of Ibsen's classic play to India in1879 where Nora is an Indian woman married to Torvald, an English man working for the British Colonial Administration in Calcutta. Nora risks her own reputation in order to save her husband's and in the process discovers herself. This new version of A Doll's House takes a fresh look at the play shining a light on British colonial history and race relations as well as gender politics and class.

Niru - INDIRA VARMA

Tom - TOBY STEPHENS

Mrs Lahiri - Shaheen Khan

Kaushik Das - SHIV GREWAL

Uma - Rani Moorthy

Dr Rank - CONRAD NELSON

Bob - James Allen

Peter - Matthew Allen

Tabla Maestro, Shahbaz Hussain

Dancer, ANJUM MALIK

Directed by NADIA MOLINARI

TANIKA GUPTA transposes the setting of Ibsen's classic play to India in1879 where 'Nora', now Niru, is an Indian woman married to 'Torvald', now Tom, an English man working for the British Colonial Administration in Calcutta. Niru risks her own reputation in order to save her husband's and in the process discovers herself. This new version of A Doll's House takes a fresh look at the play shining a light on British colonial history and race relations as well as gender politics and class.

Directed by Nadia Molinari.

Dancer, Anjum Malik.

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