Calling all theatre lovers! The Basic Theatre will kick off its first outside manufacturing of the yr with the Tony-nominated play, A Doll’s Home, Half 2, operating from March 10-27, 2022 and starring native favorites Anna Gangai and Vic Treviño. Outside and COVID-safe performances will probably be held Thursday, Friday, and Sunday evenings on the San Antonio Botanical Backyard starting at 7:30 p.m.
The play picks up the place the unique A Doll’s Home, created by Henrik Ibsen and embraced by activists all through the final century, leaves off. And no, you should not have to see the unique play as a way to benefit from the fiery debate on this wealthy sequel. Hnath takes away the century-long guesswork of what might need turn into of our lead character, Nora, after A Doll’s Home concludes. Wit, artistry, and uncooked emotion make this piece as impactful as the unique drama, particularly on this period of “Me too.”
The synopsis of A Doll’s Home, Half 2 from Playbill.com reads, “Within the last scene of Ibsen’s 1879 ground-breaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the stunning choice to depart her husband and youngsters, and start a life on her personal. This climactic occasion – when Nora slams the door on the whole lot in her life – immediately propelled world drama into the fashionable age. In A Doll’s Home, Half 2, a few years have handed since Nora’s exit. Now, there is a knock on that very same door. Nora has returned. However why? And what’s going to it imply for these she left behind?”
Get pleasure from a thought-provoking and extraordinary night as you watch Nora, one among our most necessary dramatic heroines, return to the house and household she left all these years in the past. What is going to she discover? And what’s going to you discover as you reexamine her story?
Tickets for A Doll’s Home, Half 2 will be bought right here. This manufacturing will characteristic an ASL interpreted night on March twenty fifth. Please go to The Basic’s web site and social media pages for extra occasions tied to this present.
Friends are requested to convey their very own chairs and blankets to the efficiency. The Basic Theatre could have masks and chairs obtainable for buy if wanted. Masks are required.
The Basic Theatre of San Antonio is a small nonprofit skilled theatre in San Antonio, Texas that’s dedicated to producing wonderful theatre that’s related, various, entertaining and transformative. The theatre produces 5 essential stage reveals a yr, together with a Second Sequence of smaller productions in partnership with native and nationwide artists. Based in 2008 by Chris Cheever, Asia Ciaravino, Anthony Ciaravino, Diane Malone, Rick Malone, Terri Peña Ross, and Allan S. Ross; The Basic Theatre has earned greater than 70 Alamo Theatre Arts Council (ATAC) Awards and works with The Actor’s Fairness Affiliation. www.ClassicTheatre.org