Feb 5, 2025 — Feb 23, 2025
Fifteen years after Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, a knock at that same door.
art by Yvonne Fabian
Tickets | Date | Time | Special Performances |
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Buy Tickets | Wed, Feb 5, 2025 | 7:30 pm | Preview |
Buy Tickets | Thu, Feb 6, 2025 | 7:30 pm | Preview |
Buy Tickets | Fri, Feb 7, 2025 | 8:00 pm | Opening Night |
Buy Tickets | Sat, Feb 8, 2025 | 2:00 pm | Theatre Club w/ Lance Odegard |
Buy Tickets | Sat, Feb 8, 2025 | 8:00 pm | |
Buy Tickets | Wed, Feb 12, 2025 | 7:30 pm | Wine Wednesday w/ Nelson Boschman |
Buy Tickets | Thu, Feb 13, 2025 | 7:30 pm | 2 for 1 |
Buy Tickets | Fri, Feb 14, 2025 | 8:00 pm | |
Buy Tickets | Sat, Feb 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm | Matinée |
Buy Tickets | Sat, Feb 15, 2025 | 8:00 pm | |
Buy Tickets | Sun, Feb 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm | Matinée |
Buy Tickets | Wed, Feb 19, 2025 | 7:30 pm | |
Buy Tickets | Thu, Feb 20, 2025 | 7:30 pm | |
Buy Tickets | Fri, Feb 21, 2025 | 8:00 pm | |
Buy Tickets | Sat, Feb 22, 2025 | 2:00 pm | Matinée |
Buy Tickets | Sat, Feb 22, 2025 | 8:00 pm | |
Buy Tickets | Sun, Feb 23, 2025 | 2:00 pm | Matinée |
Feb 5, 2025 — Feb 23, 2025
1 hour, 30 min. (15 min. intermission) Audience Advisory
This show contains strong language.
Fifteen years after Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, a knock at that same door. Nora has returned – but why? And what will it mean for those she left behind? Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath follows Nora back into the dollhouse as she confronts her husband, daughter, and the nursemaid who raised her children. Sharp, witty, invigorating.
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Playwright
Playwright
His play A Doll's House, Part 2 premiered on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on April 1, 2017 in previews and closed on September 24, 2017. Directed by Sam Gold, the cast featured Laurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell, and Condola Rashād. The play was commissioned by South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California, where it was running at the same time, directed by Shelley Butler, beginning April 9, 2017.[9] This marked Hnath's Broadway debut.[10] Hnath's play "picks up after Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House concludes."[11] The play was nominated for the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play and Laurie Metcalf won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play.
Actor
Actor
Melissa is a theatre actor and an emerging director who has worked with companies across Western Canada. Recent acting credits include Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Gateway), Unexpecting (Zee Zee Theatre), The Cafe (Aphotic/Itsazoo), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bard on the Beach), Lampedusa and Beautiful Man (Pi Theatre), Like it or Not and New Canadian Kid (Green Thumb), and The Twelve Dates of Christmas (Arts Club). Melissa will return to Pacific Theatre in 2025 revisiting the role of Nora in A Doll's House Part 2. Melissa was born, raised and lives in Vancouver and acknowledges the history of these stolen lands, the traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Actor
Actor
To be exploring Lucas Hnath's A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2 again with this fab group of Western Gold Theatre co-creators is a damn special honor for this actor. Thank you to each and every one of you. With over 140 professional productions over 50 plus years on Canadian stages I still feel privileged to be allowed to participate from time to time. Special thanks and appreciation to Kaitlin Williams and her team for the inclusion of this production in the Pacific Theatre season.
Actor
Actor
Tebo Nzeku, who plays the role of Emmy, has been a part of the local art scene for the past 5 years. Born and raised in South Africa, she moved to Vancouver to study and pursue her dreams of being an actor. After graduating from UBC with a BFA in Acting, her dreams became a reality. She has performed on stage in plays such as Goldrausch and Much Ado About Nothing. You also may have seen her on screen, with her television and film credits including Netflix’s Firefly Lane, The Stand, A Million Little Things and Picture of Her. A firm believer in the magic of theater, she is thrilled to be reprising her role in A Doll’s House Part Two with Pacific Theatre.
Actor
Actor
Tanja Dixon-Warren (She/Her). Tanja has been an actor/producer for 37 plus years. She is thrilled to be revisiting the role of Anne-Marie in A Doll’s House Part 2. Other select theatre includes Gertrude and Alice (United Players), Escaped Alone (Western Gold), Act of Faith (Real Wheels), A Prayer for Owen Meany (ETC /Pacific Theatre), The Wolves (With a Spoon /Pacific Theatre), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (ETC) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (United Players). Film/TV includes a bunch of blink & you’ll miss ‘em plus the occasional role with an actual name! Nominated for a number of Jessie’s she is most proud to have received the Mary Phillips Award. She is the Artistic Director of Western Gold Theatre and is honoured to bring this production to Pacific Theatre audiences
Director
Director
Seamus Is an emerging director who made his professional directing debut with Western Gold Theatre's 2023 production of A Doll's House Part 2. Directing credits include Bare (Eternal Theatre Collective), MilkMilkLemonade (Awkward Stage Productions). Assistant Director credits include: Seventeen, Escaped Alone (Western Gold Theatre), Charles III (The Arts Club), The Imaginary Invalid, Taken at Midnight (United Players).
Seamus also works as an arts educator and has directed numerous productions for the Arts Umbrella Pre-Professional Training Program (Goldilocks and The Three Bears, The Boxcar Children, Chaos, Kindness), Coquitlam Youth Theatre (King Arthur's Calamity, Unity (1918), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oh What A Lovely War 2.0, The Jungle Book, Our Town) and the Vancouver School Board (Oh What a Lovely War, DNA, (Anon)ymous, The Secret in the Wings). Seamus is also an emerging playwright having received productions with The Or Festival, Arts Umbrella, and Vancouver School Board. He hopes you all enjoy discovering the world of A Doll's House Part 2, and much gratitude to the WGT team and Pacific Theatre.
Stage Manager
Stage Manager
Ingrid Turk (she/her) is a daughter of settlers, fortunate to live here in the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish people, and grateful for their endless stewardship of the lands and waters here. Ingrid has been a stage manager of theatre, dance, and opera for 40 years, and has been working with Western Gold for several seasons. She’s a House Manager at Bard on the Beach during the summers. Right now she is delighted to be working with this marvellous cast at the ever-welcoming Pacific Theatre.
Set and Props Designer
Set and Props Designer
Emily has an MFA in Theatre from UBC. Assistant set/costume design: Dangerous Liaisons (Stratford); Assistant Designer for the 60th/61st seasons: Shaw Festival; Keepers of the Salish Sea (The Cultch). Assistant set design: Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors (Bard on the Beach). Set design: Ghost Train (Mortal Coil/Stanley Park); 9 to 5: The Musical (Royal City Musical); Chickens (UP); Film/TV: Scenic painter: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix); Art Director: Goldteeth (Crazy8s). Awards: Best Production Design: The POV Film Festival, Emerging Artist Award: Prague Quadrennial. Thank you to my husband, Matt. emilydotson.design
Costume Designer
Costume Designer
Barbara Clayden has been designing costumes for over 45 years, working with both small and large theatre companies in Vancouver, including Firehall Arts Centre, Theatre Replacement, Arts Club Theatre and Bard on the Beach.
Selected works in the last few years include:
Coriolanus 2019 (Bard on the Beach)
East Van Panto 2018-20 (Theatre Replacement)
Kinky Boots 2021 (Arts Club Theatre)
Reflections on Crooked Walking (Firehall Arts Centre 2023)
Hamlet (Bard on the Beach 2024)
Jersey Boys (Arts Club Theatre 2024)
She has been nominated for over 15 Jessies Richardson Awards and won 8 for Outstanding
Costume Design.
Barbara holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia.
Sound Designer
Sound Designer
Peggy Lee is an improvising cellist and composer who leads and collaborates across numerous ensembles including her own groups – The Peggy Lee Band, Film In Music, and Echo Painting – and collective projects such as Waxwing, Handmade Blade and Beatings Are In The Body. Peggy also co-leads the Australian improvising quartet Open Thread (with Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, and Dylan van der Schyff). Peggy has toured and recorded with many leading artists including Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Dave Douglas and Darius Jones. Peggy has also collaborated extensively in dance and theatre with companies and artists such as Odd Meridian, Kokoro Dance, EDAM, Machinenoisy, Electric Company, Ruby Slippers, Rumble Theatre and Western Gold.
Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Rebekah is pleased to be returning to Western Gold for this remount of A Doll's House Part 2. Previously for WGT - '90 Days'. Elsewhere: 'Reflections on Crooked Walking' and 'This is How We Got Here' for The Firehall Arts Centre, 'Ride the Cyclone' and 'Around the World in 80 Day's for Blue Bridge Theatre, 'Oz' and 'Snow White' for Carousel Theatre, and 'The Fiance' and 'Jeeves Goes to Sea' for The Chemainus Theatre Festival, where she is the Technical Director.
Projection Designer
Projection Designer
Glenn began his career at thirteen years old in The Music Man at Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg. He went on to train in all aspects of the theatre at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. He has worked as an actor, Stage Manager, Production Manager and Designer for theatres across Canada and in the US including The Vancouver Playhouse, Arts Club Theatre, Stratford Festival, Charlottetown Festival and Studio Arena Theatre (Buffalo, NY). He co-produced Torch Song Trilogy at the Cultch, worked in Production Management for Expo ’86 Entertainment Department, Stage Managed the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Calgary Winter Olympics and was Operations Director for BC’s MUSIC ’91. He also works in television and film in set decoration and has over 100 projects to his credit. He sits on the Board of Trustees of PAL Vancouver. He is the recipient of the 2016 Jesse Richardson Award for Outstanding Set Design for the production of Annapurna. Glenn designed sets for Collected Stories at the Revue Stage (Log House Productions), No Man’s Land (Smoking Gun Collective) at PAL, The Ballad of George Boivin, Funny Money, The Triumph of Love, Opening Night, The Importance of Being Earnest, She Stoops to Conquer and Hilda’s Yard for Western Gold Theatre, where he has been General Manager since 2012. He created the sets and projections for The Trials and Tribulations of Whiskey Dick at Jericho Arts Centre, Finding Nemos for CTORA and Metro Theatre’s recent productions of The Play That Went Wrong, The Woman in Black plus And Then There Were None opening this month.
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