A new adaption by Tanika Gupta of Ibsen's classic, A Doll's House, comes to the Lyric Hammersmith. Calcutta. 1879. Niru, is a young Bengali woman in a mixed-race marriage with an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom.

Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept. But Niru has a long-kept secret. And just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her.  Tanika Gupta re-imagines Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race.  Rachel O'Riordan makes her directional debut as Artistic Director of the Lyric, in a production that gives new urgency to the forces that drive our heroine to choose between society's expectations and her own identity. At Lyric Hammersmith from 6 September to 5 October 2019, book your A Doll's House tickets today!