Playing it straight with A Doll House

Pan Pan’s take on Henrik Ibsen’s classic tragedy toys with its title but is otherwise true to his vision, says Pádraic Killeen

IT’S the final week of rehearsals for Pan Pan’s Henrik Ibsen adaptation, A Doll House, and director Gavin Quinn is leading the actors through final rehearsals.

Judith Roddy — playing the iconic lead Nora — has scampered downstage, and Quinn instructs her to make her movements “just a little more squirrelly”. Roddy obliges.