“Shattering and exhilarating… a transfixing slow-boil take on the
landmark Ibsen drama.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“Compelling… exhilarating… Herzog’s dialogue, pruning the social floweriness and conversational whorls of Ibsen’s naturalism, gets right to the point of every line, leaving the text raw and red, as if exfoliated.” – The New York Times
“Smart and captivating… Much of the credit for this enticement belongs to playwright Amy Herzog, whose adaptation of the groundbreaking 1879 marriage story gives just enough of a contemporary spin – our protagonist Nora delights at the prospect of acquiring ‘tons of money’ – without sacrificing the emotional heft or power of more traditionally rendered translations.” – Deadline
“Shattering and exhilarating… [a] transfixing slow-boil take on the landmark Ibsen drama, which builds a bridge between its original 1879 setting and the present day in Amy Herzog’s laser-focused new modern adaptation... Herzog is one of the most perceptively humanistic American playwrights to emerge in the past 15 years, her sensitivity and gift for fine-grained portraiture on display in works like After the Revolution, 4000 Miles, Belleville and Mary Jane… She deftly condenses Ibsen’s traditional three acts into an uninterrupted two hours that heighten the original playwright’s intention to show the ways in which a patriarchal society stymies women’s personhood.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“It is a thing of beauty, this play… the story is clear, unmuddied by all the usual strutting and fretting… it’s thrilling.” – Variety
“Herzog's script functions well at reworking this 19th-century
play into a form that will speak to modern audiences. There is no actual shifting of time, but the last long discussion between Nora and the clueless Torvald would be right at home in the 1970s and the second-wave feminist movement.” – Talkin’ Broadway