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N in the Doll’s House

Loosely based on ‘A Doll’s House’, this totally rewritten work creates an Ibsenian-inspired Nora, belonging to this time.
The set design reduced to the essential includes a Human Doll on stage that appears and disappears in the background, a form of life in a caged structure.
Nora and Torvald are two children of our time. Torvald is much younger than Nora.
She an unconscious pink-haired superficial aristocratic and naive doll, careful about her appearance and that of her house, whose only concern is not to displease Torvald, a narcissistic, animalistic, cruel, manipulative young man who wants to dominate and possess.
Nora and Torvald discover each other through extreme dramas, interspersed with moments of parody capable of eliciting the bitter smile that brings a thought to consciousness. In the most terrible moments, Nora responds to the pain by creating parallel moments, where she becomes a drug queen and gains consciousness by playing. In front of the camera – as in front of the mirror – is the real Nora as she experiences an introspection of the soul that the viewer can access as a voyeur forced into Nora’s truest emotions, while Nora’s normal life (superficial, in the sense of what it appears to be) flows on the scene.
Nora’s private moments are filmed by a video camera and projected live on stage.
Nora eventually breaks the pattern, and steps out of the role to be something real, generating an action that will leave Torvald in a final monologue in front of the camera finally authentic.

Data sheet

Duration: 50 min
Artistic direction: Federica Barcellona
Performers: Federica Barcellona, Emanuela Rolla, Igor Chierici
Costumes: Francesca Traverso, Andrea Costigliolo (Man and The City)
Set design: Federica Barcellona
Lighting design: Federica Barcellona
Sound design: Federica Barcellona
Production support:: Performer- Espressione Applicata