A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen Narrated by Alison Larkin, Andrew Wincott

Overview

A Groundbreaking Binaural Audio production.

This powerful new recording performed by just two actors uses cutting-edge binaural sound to create the illusion of a full cast.

Nora seems to have it all - a loving husband, children and a comfortable life. But when a secret from her past threatens her carefully constructed world, she is forced to confront the stark realities of her marriage and the issues of her gender in society.

The recording is followed by a fascinating conversation in which the actors talk how powerful and relevant the play still is today and how this unique project came to be.

Alison Larkin is the multi award-winning narrator of over 250 audiobooks, including The Complete Novels of Jane Austen. Andrew Wincott is also an A-list narrator and actor who recently won a BAFTA for his role as Rafael in the hit video game, Baldur's Gate 3 and is perhaps most famous for his role of Adam in The Archers on BBC Radio.

Editorial Reviews

USA Today

New, raw, gut-twisting and gripping. Easily the hottest drama this season.

Wall Street Journal

Bold, brilliant and alive.

Time

A thunderclap of an evening that takes your breath away.

Associated Press

The stuff of Broadway legend.

From the Publisher

Simon Stephens's agile new version [is] . . . quick and clear and full of subtle touches” —Susannah Clapp, Guardian

“A sensible, sensitive and spirited version . . . that chimes with the debt-laden times we're trapped in and poses still-pressing questions” —Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph

“The supple new version of the text by Simon Stephens is [a] great plus point . . . in this definitive take on a classic” —Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard

“An astute, often savagely funny version by Simon Stephens . . . And as the doll at the play's heart and hearth cracks like porcelain and the woman emerges, it's with a force that's shattering.” —Sam Marlowe, Metro

“Simon Stephens's new English-language version of the text . . . makes the characters' anxieties feel contemporary despite the period dress. "Feminism" may not have been in Ibsen's vocabulary, but he was undoubtedly concerned with the roles we all play and why.” —Financial Times

The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities - Lolita Lark

Maybe it's Nicholas Rudall's new translation. Maybe it's a matter of the gods. I couldn't put [A Doll's House] down. It's tight, and terse—reads like a fine short novel.

Evening Standard

A powerful statement of [Ibsen's] radical beliefs about gender, the folly of idealism and the nature of modern love.

The New Statesman

Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940193392378
Publisher:	Alison Larkin Presents
Publication date:	12/09/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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