The week in theatre: Nora: A Doll's House; The Key Workers Cycle; Legacy
Royal Exchange, Manchester; Almeida; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonStef Smith's Ibsen update can't quite match the original for its sense of dread; the mystery play gets a Covid-era reboot; and Maria Friedman wallows in showtune nostalgia Stef Smith's Nora: A Doll's House, a response to Ibsen's classic, had its nicely timed opening at Manchester's Royal Exchange on International Women's Day. Ibsen used to deny he …