Nora: A Doll's House review " Ibsen in fiddly triplicate
Royal Exchange, ManchesterStef Smith's reworking of the incendiary play casts three Noras in different eras, but can't give them credible life There is not one disgruntled wife in this high-concept reworking of Henrik Ibsen's incendiary play but three Noras, situated in different time-frames across a century: 1918, 1968 and 2018. It is a bold idea, slightly reminiscent of The Hours, and it re-plants the drama in symb…