A Doll House

Henrik Ibsen

May 2012 · L.A. Theatre Works · Narrated by Calista Flockhart, Gregory Itzin, Jeannie Elias, JoBeth Williams, Tim Dekay, and Tony Abatemarco

About this audiobook

Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen’s play is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater, UCLA in September, 2011.

• Director: Rosalind Ayres
• Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
• Calista Flockhart as Nora Helmer
• Tony Abatemarco as Dr. Rank
• Tim DeKay as Torvald Helmer
• Jeannie Elias as Anne-Marie/Helene
• Gregory Itzin as Nils Krogstad
• JoBeth Williams as Mrs. Linde

Associate Producer: Christina Montaño. Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo. Editor: Wes Dewberry

About the author

Henrik Ibsen, poet and playwright was born in Skein, Norway, in 1828. His creative work spanned 50 years, from 1849-1899, and included 25 plays and numerous poems. During his middle, romantic period (1840-1875), Ibsen wrote two important dramatic poems, Brand and Peer Gynt, while the period from 1875-1899 saw the creation of 11 realistic plays with contemporary settings, the most famous of which are A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen died in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway in 1906.