Why was she in a nurse’s costume…..

I have had the pleasure of working with A Doll’s House before. I thoroughly enjoyed reading and analyzing it. This adaptation was not what I read. At all. I knew this was going to be a modern adaptation, but I did not expect anything like what went on stage. I do not think the designer portrayed Nora as a caged bird, or at least not as much as I had hoped. There was no architectural feature that made her look caged in, in my opinion. The only caged feature was the amount of floor time she had. It had an almost trapped or chained to the room feeling. Other than that, the house was vacant, bland, and open. I thought the costume design was very interesting, especially the nurse’s dress. At first, when I saw the dress, I was very confused. I thought it did not go with the play and was just a random prop. As soon as she put it on, I made the connection. She was the doll. In the original adaptation, Torvolt pushes Nora to become his doll. He pushes the idea of being a stereotypical housewife onto her. However, in this adaptation, Nora pushes that narrative onto herself. She is the one who gets the nurse dressed out of the box. She asks Torvolt to tell her to put the dress on. This differs heavily from the original. The lighting was something that I also found appealing because it really did not change at all. Two scenes really stuck out to me. It was when the lighting went orange and blue. Orange is a more flamboyant color, while blue is a more calming color. I found it interesting that they used orange in a scene of them organizing the house, and then used blue in a very promiscuous scene. The lighting differed from what the scene was actually about, which I thought was interesting and intentional.