A Doll's House (NP)
The first time Nora left her husband and children was at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1879. Since then she has left them all over the world.
Directed by Sunil Pokharel / Aarohan Theatre Group
In the winter of 2001 the Danish director Madeleine Røn met the Nepalese theatre director Sunil Pokharel in the context of a workshop. Their conversation about the change in family structures and social conditions gave them the idea of using the theatre as a medium to register the social changes in Denmark and Nepal. The choice was A Doll’s House. The play was written at a time when the situation in the west in many ways resembles the situation Nepal finds herself in today. In Nepal women are still being oppressed, socially and financially, by the conservative norms in a society that binds them to their home. The production has triggered debate in Nepal about its patriarchal positions and divorce as a solution.