A review by knuckledown
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

2.0

It centers around a late 1800s couple. The wife was keeping many secrets from the husband. In a way this was fun because he constantly underestimated her, thinking she was just his silly wife when really she was outsmarting him. Of course, it seems that men of this era (see Dickens) were incapable of writing a likable female character. Instead of being almost nauseatingly virtuous (again see Dickens), Ibsen's heroine was whiny and self-centered. Only at the conclusion when she stands up to her husband did I want to give her a hearty "go girl!"

That brings me to the odd thing about the play. Once the climax occurs, you realize that what you thought was a cautionary tale about deceit was really trying to show the woes of a marriage in which neither party respects or even truly knows the other.