Can't imagine a better cast than Anthony Hopkins and Claire Bloom! The play is a classic and it is acted to perfection by pros. Bloom's portrayal of Nora shows her to be cunning and deceptive from the start, but cleverly playing the game of being her husband's little 'doll.' He is pompous, arrogant and authoritarian, oblivious of his insensitivity to his wife's feelings and needs. In the context of the approaching death of their good friend, Dr. Rank, who professes his love for her, and the denouement of the revelation of her forgery and shame, Nora realizes she doesn't love her husband, doesn't know herself, and decides to leave him altogether, including their three young children.
How shocking this must have been at the turn of the century! The one serious conversation of the couple married eight years is one that many unhappy couples should witness and study.
How shocking this must have been at the turn of the century! The one serious conversation of the couple married eight years is one that many unhappy couples should witness and study.