The+First+Production

= The First Production  =

In Norway, //A Doll's House// was published two weeks before its first performance at the [|Det Kongelige Teater]in Copenhagen on December 21, 1879. There was a lot of debate because of Nora's decision to leave her marriage at the end of the play. The reaction in Germany was the same as in Norway. Ibsen was forced to write an [|alternative ending]for the German play, since the actress playing Nora refused to portray a mother who would leave her children. In the alternative ending Nora does not leave the house, but she is forced by Torvald to the doorway of the children’s bedroom. Nora sinks to the floor, and the curtain falls.

Word spread slowly about the play. It was two years before the play was performed outside Scandinavia and Germany, and ten years before the original version was seen in England or America. France did not see the play until 1894. By the time it took its place in the European theatres, Ibsen was over sixty. The cast of the original play.

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