Publisher Description
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
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About Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) was a major nineteenth-century Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet. He is often referred to as “the father of prose drama” and is one of the founders of modernism in the theater. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder. Several of his plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theater was required to model strict mores of family life and propriety. Ibsen’s work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality.
About the Narrators
Gregory
Itzin is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role
as President Charles Logan in the series 24, a role for which he was twice
nominated for a Primetime Emmy. He has had appearances in a number of
television’s most popular shows during the span of his career, including, Matlock,
ER, CSI, Friends, The West Wing, and three different Star Trek series. He’s
also had roles in numerous films including, Adaptation, The Ides of March, and Lincoln.
Most recently he’s had recurring roles in The Mentalist and Covert Affairs.
JoBeth Williams is a film, stage, and television actress and president of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. Among her many film and television credits are Dexter, Hart of Dixie, 24, The Big Chill, and Poltergeist.
Kate Steele is a
Los Angeles-based actress who has appeared in Matchstick Men, Frasier, Modern Family, and L.A. Theatre Works’
production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé.