Artistic director of the company Plexus Polaire and director of the Nordland Visual Theatre, located beyond the Arctic Circle, Yngvild Aspeli is revisiting the work of a fellow countryman. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen is set in a small Norwegian town in 1879: Nora, a frivolous housewife, leaves her husband Thorvald and their three children after the revelation of a secret causes their marriage to explode. The play was a huge success at the time. Life-size puppets embody all the characters in this intertwining of lies woven over the years. In her very personal retelling, based around a sketch of a living room, Yngvild embodies and manipulates Nora's puppet. Delving into Ibsen's subtext (in English with subtitles) with finesse, she looks at the way in which we carry, consciously or unconsciously, the weight of our past, as both a strength and a burden.
Suitable for ages 14 and up.