2011- 12- 28
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The Production of A Doll’s House:
Two weeks before the premiere a print run of 8,000 copies of the script had been published, and it already had sold out. The world premiere of A Doll’s House (Et dukkehjem) took place at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen on December 21, 1879 with Betty Hennings as the first Nora and Emil Poulsen as Torvald, and H.P. Holst as the director of the production. The premiere date was fitting for the Christmastime setting of the play. the play was so heatedly debated in Scandinavia in 1879 that, as critic Frances Lord observes, "many a social invitation in Stockholm during that winter bore the words, 'You are requested not to mention Ibsen's Doll's House!"
Writing for the Norwegen newspaper Folkets Avis, the critic Erik Bøgh admired Ibsen's originality and technical mastery: "Not a single declamatory phrase, no high dramatics, no drop of blood, not even a tear."
Ibsen was obliged to supply an alternative ending for the first German production when the famous leading lady Hedwig Niemann-Raabe refused to perform the role of Nora, stating that "I would never leave my children!" Since the playwright's wishes were not protected by copyright, Ibsen decided to avoid the danger of being re-written by a lesser dramatist by committing what he called a "barbaric outrage" on his play himself and giving it an alternative ending in which Nora did not leave. Because of a lack of success, Niemann-Raabe eventually restored the original ending. Finally, The first British production opened on 7 June 1889, starring Janet Achurch as Nora.
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