"I don't think she can ever understand why Nora left, because leaving your children is the cardinal sin to her." "She wants what she didn't have."Īnne Marie, the Helmer family's nanny, stepped in as essentially the mother to the children when Nora left, and "there's some resentment there toward Nora," said Karin Parker, who plays Anne Marie. Unlike Nora, "she wants to get married and have a family," said Hearn, who was named best actress at this spring's region competition as a member of Southeast's one-act "A Piece of My Heart," which earned Hearn and her fellow performers a spot in the state one-act competition. "I thought she was dead - the whole town did - until I figured it out myself the hard way by doing some digging."Įmmy "grew up before" she should have, so "she's an old soul, very smart and sarcastic," said Hearn, a member of Southeast Whitfield High School's class of 2021.
"We're strangers, because she left when I was like 4, and now I'm 19 or 20, and I don't know her," said Shelby Hearn, a freshman at Dalton State College who plays Emmy. "I missed out on her life because I left - it's a real dagger - and the absence I feel in that scene is palpable."
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"She's quite full of herself, but, ironically, she needs help from the very people she left."Īnd while Nora can bat down most of the slings and arrows from those in her past, she's "at her most vulnerable" in a conversation with her daughter, Emmy, whom she left when Emmy was a young child, Winchester said. Playwright Lucas Hnath's work catches up with characters from "A Doll's House" 15 years after Ibsen's drama concluded, as Nora Helmer returns to her former home and meets those she left behind.Īfter leaving her husband and children, Nora "did incredibly well for herself" as a novelist - "much better than anyone would have expected of her" during an era with few opportunities for women outside of the home - and "she doesn't mind letting you know it," said Ayana Winchester, who plays Nora. "Many women, particularly mothers of young children, have been furloughed or laid off, (while) many others have had to choose between showing up at front-line jobs or caring for their children who, with daycare centers closed and school underway remotely, would otherwise be left without supervision."
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