A Doll’s House

Dramatis Personae

• Torvald Helmer

• Nora, his wife

• Doctor Rank

• Mrs. Linde

• Nils Krogstad

• Helmer’s three young children

• Anne, their nurse

• A Housemaid

• A Porter

The action takes place in Helmer’s house.

Act I

A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance hall, another to the left leads to Helmer’s study. Between the doors stands a piano. In the middle of the left-hand wall is a door, and beyond it a window. Near the window are a round table, armchairs and a small sofa. In the right-hand wall, at the farther end, another door; and on the same side, nearer the footlights, a stove, two easy chairs and a rocking chair; between the stove and the door, a small table. Engravings on the walls; a cabinet with china and other small objects; a small bookcase with well-bound books. The floors are carpeted, and a fire burns in the stove. It is winter.