Even without a door slam, Henrik Ibsen's classic hits home. To view Nora Helmer's girlish high spirits as proof of immaturity is as much a mistake as viewing Blanche DuBois's flights of nostalgia as proof of weakness. Both of these indelible dramatic heroines reach their breaking point (or in Nora's case, a breaking-away point) only after making huge"and unsung"sacrifices for their famili…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on October 9, 2019