A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen, In a new version by Anya Reiss, Directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins
Event details
Tue 31 March – Sat 23 May 2026
If I get run over tomorrow, how are you paying the Amex off?
If you get run over tomorrow, why should I care because I am flinging myself into the road after you.
Nora and Torvald’s marriage vows are a binding contract, but when scandal threatens to wreck their lives, it’s time to renegotiate the terms. Money, sex, power – this time nothing’s off the table.
Romola Garai returns to the Almeida, following her Olivier Award-winning performance in The Years, to play Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s subversive domestic tragedy. In a new version by Critics’ Circle Theatre Award winner Anya Reiss (Becoming Elizabeth; The Seagull), Joe Hill-Gibbins (The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; Ghosts) directs this provocative drama about the lies we tell to keep things sweet at home.
Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees 2pm
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Content Warnings Recommended for ages 12+. Read more about our production guidance and warnings>
Running Time Approx. 2 hours and 35 minutes, including an interval. Please note running time may change during previews.
VIDEOS
Rehearsal photos
By Marc Brenner
Cast & Creatives
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Cast
James Corrigan
James Corrigan
James Corrigan
James trained at LAMDA.
Theatre includes: Visit from an Unknown Woman (Hampstead Theatre); The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); Lyonesse; King Lear (West End); Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre); White Noise (Bridge Theatre); Julius Caesar; Coriolanus; Antony and Cleopatra; The Two Noble Kinsmen; The Seven Acts of Mercy; Wendy and Peter Pan; Othello; The Merchant of Venice; Shakespeare Birthday (RSC); Hay Fever; The Big Meal (Theatre Royal Bath).
Film includes: Midas Man; The Nan Movie; School’s Out Forever.
Television includes: Time; My Lady Jane; Grace; CB Strike; This England; This Is Going to Hurt; Strike; Temple; Manhunt.
Romola Garai
Romola Garai
Romola Garai
For the Almeida: The Years (also West End, Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role);The Writer.
Theatre includes: Giant (Royal Court/ West End, Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role); Queen Anne; King Lear/ The Seagull (RSC); Measure for Measure (Young Vic); The Village Bike (Royal Court); Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith); Calico (West End).
Film includes: Scoop; One Life; Earwig; Suffragette, One Day; Glorious 39; The Critic; Miss Marx; The Children; Atonement; Angel; Amazing Grace; Inside I’m Dancing; Vanity Fair; Nicholas Nickleby; I Capture the Castle.
Television includes: Adultery; Betrayal; Just Act Normal; Vigil; The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies; Becoming Elizabeth; Born to Kill; Attachments; The Miniaturist; Churchill’s Secret; The Hour; The Crimson Petal and the White; Emma; Mary Bryant; Daniel Deronda.
Olivier Huband
Olivier Huband
Olivier Huband
For the Almeida: Romans, a novel.
Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); Our Country’s Good (Lyric Hammersmith); Humour in the Water Coolant (ICA); The Duchess of Malfi; The Tempest; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Henry V (Donmar Warehouse); Barefoot in the Park (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Such Filthy F*cks (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh); An Enemy of the People (The Playground Theatre).
Film includes: The Way of the Runner; Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
Television includes: Moonflower Murders; This England; A Discovery of Witches; Becoming Elizabeth; I Hate Suzie; Informer.
Tom Mothersdale
Tom Mothersdale
Tom Mothersdale
For the Almeida: Oil.
Theatre includes: Measure for Measure (RSC); London Tide; John; Cleansed (National Theatre); Sea Creatures (Hampstead Theatre); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); Blue Water and Cold and Fresh; A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (Lyric Hammersmith); Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp; The Woods (Royal Court); Richard III; The Glass Menagerie; Boys; Romeo and Juliet (Headlong); Dealing With Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); Crave; 4.48 Psychosis (Sheffield Theatres); The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic, Ian Charleson Award Second Prize); In Lambeth (Southwark Playhouse); Missing Dates (Hampstead Theatre); King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre/ BAM, New York); Thursday (Adelaide Festival); Iphigenia; The Phoenix of Madrid; Pride and Prejudice (Theatre Royal Bath); An Ideal Husband (West End); The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Film includes: Black Noise; Overlord; Actress; Unseen; The Rain Collector.
Television includes: Brian and Maggie; Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light; Bodies; Culprits; Treadstone; Alex Rider; War of the Worlds; A Discovery of Witches; Van der Valk; Hanna; Electric Dreams; Doc Martin; Liar; King Charles III; Endeavor; Peaky Blinders.
Thalissa Teixeira
Thalissa Teixeira
Thalissa Teixeira
Thalissa trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
Theatre includes: The Taming of the Shrew; Women Beware Women; Othello; The Broken Heart; The Changeling (Shakespeare’s Globe); Julius Caesar (RSC); Dr Semmelweis (Bristol Old Vic); Blood Wedding (Young Vic); Yerma (Young Vic/ Park Avenue Armoury, New York); Julie (National Theatre); Dear Elizabeth; The Unknown Island (Gate Theatre); The Night Watch (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Electra (The Old Vic).
Film incudes:
As an actor: Harvest
As Writer and Director: We Met Before.
Television includes: Alice & Jack; Ragdoll; Too Close; Two Weeks to Live; Anne Boleyn; Trigonometry. ,
Radio includes: My Mother Said My Name; Electra; In Flux.
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Creatives
Henrik Ibsen
Writer
Anya ReissAnya Reiss
Adaptor
Anya Reiss
Theatre includes: The Seagull (West End); Oliver Twist (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Spring Awakening (Headlong); The Seagull (Southwark Playhouse); Forty-Five Minutes (National Theatre/ Orange Tree Theatre); The Acid Test; Spur of the Moment (Royal Court, Critics’ Circle Theatre Award and Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, and TMA Award for Best New Play).
Television includes: Becoming Elizabeth; Ackley Bridge; EastEnders.
Joe Hill-GibbinsJoe Hill-Gibbins
Director
Joe Hill-Gibbins
Joe is a theatre and opera director based in London.
For the Almeida: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; Little Revolution.
Theatre includes:
As Director and Adaptor: Ghosts (Shakespeare’s Globe).
As Director: A View from the Bridge (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre); Summerfolk (Residenztheater Munich); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Measure for Measure; The Changeling; The Glass Menagerie; The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); Absolute Hell; Edward II (National Theatre); Mary Page Marlowe (Theater Basel); The Village Bike; The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court).
Opera includes: Giustino (Royal Opera House); Powder Her Face; Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (ENO, Olivier Award nomination for Best New Opera); The Marriage of Figaro (ENO/ Wuppertal Bühnen); Lear (Staatsoper Hannover); Greek (Staatsoper Hannover); Greek (Edinburgh International Festival/ BAM, New York/ Scottish Opera).
Hyemi ShinHyemi Shin
Set Designer
Hyemi Shin
Theatre includes:
As Set and Costume Designer: The Mountaintop (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The Dumb Waiter (The Old Vic); Solaris (Malthouse Theatre/ Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); The End of Eddy (Unicorn Theatre); The Seagull; Herons; Morning; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith); Dirty Butterfly; Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Young Vic).
As Set Designer: Machinal (Theatre Royal Bath/ The Old Vic); Once in a Lifetime (Young Vic).
Opera includes:
As Set and Costume Designer: Dido and Aeneas (Theatre Royal Bath).
As Set Designer: Eugene Onegin; Wozzeck; Samson and Delila (Royal Opera House); Giant (Snape Maltings/ Royal Opera House); The Return of Ulysses (Royal Opera House/ Roundhouse); La Damnation de Faust (Glyndebourne).
As Costume Designer: The Skating Rink (Garsington Opera).
Dance includes:
As Set and Costume Designer: Life’s Witness (Royal Opera House); Orpheus Alive; Unearth (National Ballet of Canada); The Kreutzer Sonata (Ballet Moscow); How to be a Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons (Dublin Theatre Festival/ Sadler’s Wells/ World tour).
As Costume Designer: 1975; MÁM; Swan Lake - Loch na hEala (Dublin Theatre Festival/ Sadler’s Wells/ World tour, The Irish Times Award for Best Costumes).
Alex LowdeAlex Lowde
Costume Designer
Alex Lowde
Alex studied Drama at Hull University and Stage Design at the Motley School.
For the Almeida:
As Costume Designer: Machinal; Game.
Theatre includes:
Set and Costume Designer: The New Real (RSC/ Headlong); The School for Scandal (RSC); Jitney (Headlong/ The Old Vic/ Leeds Playhouse); A View From The Bridge (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre); Victory Condition (Residenztheater Munich); Flood (Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation); Crave; random/generations (Chichester Festival Theatre); Pygmalion (Headlong/ Leeds Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Shakespeare’s Globe); Persuasion (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Three Sisters (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Fröken Julie (Aarhus Theatre); The Fall of The Master Builder; Enjoy (Leeds Playhouse); Krapp’s Last Tape (Sheffield Theatres); The Color Purple (Curve Theatre, Leicester/ Birmingham Hippodrome); Dutchmen; One for the Road/Victoria Station; Tobias and the Angel (The Young Vic); Stinkfoot; Lines (The Yard); August: Osage County; A Doll’s House (Dundee Rep); The Body of an American (Gate Theatre); Blake Diptych (Southbank Centre).
Opera includes:
As Set and Costume Designer: La Cenerentola (Nederlandse ReisOpera); Blue (ENO); Werther (Stadttheater Bremerhaven); La clemenza di Tito (Theater an der Wien); Rigoletto (Wexford Opera); Excursions of Mr Broucek (Opera North/ Scottish Opera); The Lion’s Face; The Nose; The Gentle Giant (Royal Opera House).
Lee CurranLee Curran
Lighting Designer
Lee Curran
For the Almeida: Romans, a novel; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Roots; Look Back in Anger; King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End/ BAM, New York); Summer and Smoke (also West End); Dance Nation.
Theatre includes: Constellations (West End/ Broadway/ Royal Court); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ US tour/ Barbican); Next to Normal (West End/ Donmar Warehouse); Player Kings (West End/ UK tour); Henry V; Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); The House of Bernarda Alba; The Welkin; Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical!; Protest Song (National Theatre); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); Titus Andronicus; Julius Caesar (RSC); The Song Project; Gundog; X; Linda (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie; West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); This Bitter Earth (Soho Theatre); Harm (Bush Theatre); BURGERZ (Hackney Showroom).
Opera includes: Orphée et Eurydice (Royal Opera House); Aida; Fidelio; Nothing (Royal Danish Opera); Tosca (Opera North/ Opera Australia).
Dance includes: Cycles, Blak Whyte Gray (Boy Blue); The Limit (Royal Opera House); We Are As Gods (James Cousins Company); Enowate (Dickson Mbi); Sun; Political Mother; In Your Rooms; Uprising (Hofesh Shechter Company); Untouchable (Royal Ballet); Grey Matter; Tomorrow (Rambert).
Gareth FryGareth Fry
Sound Designer
Gareth Fry
Gareth trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama. He is the author of Sound Design for the Stage. His awards include three Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, two Helpmann Awards and an Evening Standard Award.
For the Almeida: Romeo and Juliet; Boy; Game; Rosmersholm.
Theatre includes: Paranormal Activity (West End/ US tour/ Leeds Playhouse); Lander 23; Viola’s Room (Punchdrunk); A Christmas Carol (Sheffield Theatres); Grease The Immersive Movie Musical (Secret Cinema); Hamlet Hail to the Thief (Factory International/ RSC); Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); The Sound Inside (Traverse Theatre); Free Your Mind (Factory International); Othello (Lyric Hammersmith); Player Kings; Medea; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; A Christmas Carol (West End); Woyzeck (The Old Vic); Shun-kin; Endgame; The Encounter (Complicité); Let The Right One In; Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland); Wings; The Cherry Orchard; Wild Swans; Hamlet (Young Vic); Othello; The Cat in the Hat; Attempts on Her Life; Waves; The Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre); On The Ropes (Park Theatre); A Christmas Carol; John Gabriel Borkman; Bach & Sons; Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads; Beat The Devil (Bridge Theatre); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Rose Theatre Kingston); To The Streets (Birmingham Hippodrome); Psychodrama (Traverse Theatre); Bedknobs & Broomsticks (UK tour); The Arrival (Bush Theatre); As You Like It (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Genesis Inc (Hampstead Theatre).
Television includes: CBeebies Nutcracker; CBeebies Thumbelina; Alice in Wonderland; CBeebies A Christmas Carol.
Other work includes: Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.
Jenny OgilvieJenny Ogilvie
Collaborating Director
Jenny Ogilvie
Joe is a theatre and opera director based in London.
For the Almeida: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; Little Revolution.
Theatre includes:
As Director and Adaptor: Ghosts (Shakespeare’s Globe).
As Director: A View from the Bridge (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre); Summerfolk (Residenztheater Munich); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Measure for Measure; The Changeling; The Glass Menagerie; The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); Absolute Hell; Edward II (National Theatre); Mary Page Marlowe (Theater Basel); The Village Bike; The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court).
Opera includes: Giustino (Royal Opera House); Powder Her Face; Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (ENO, Olivier Award nomination for Best New Opera); The Marriage of Figaro (ENO/ Wuppertal Bühnen); Lear (Staatsoper Hannover); Greek (Staatsoper Hannover); Greek (Edinburgh International Festival/ BAM, New York/ Scottish Opera).
Amy Ball CDGAmy Ball CDG
Casting Director
Amy Ball CDG
For the Almeida: Christmas Day; Romans; 1536 (also West End); Rhinoceros; Otherland; Look Back in Anger; Roots; The Years (also West End); Alma Mater; Cold War; Portia Coughlan; Women, Beware the Devil; “Daddy” A Melodrama; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Dance Nation; Boy.
Theatre includes: The Hunger Games On Stage (Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre); The Weir; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Dr. Strangelove; Hamnet; Unicorn; Slave Play; Lyonesse; The Hills of California; Jerusalem; Leopoldstadt; Uncle Vanya; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Night of the Iguana; Rosmersholm; True West; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; The Pillowman (West End); The Son (Kiln Theatre/ West End); Sweat (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); The Ferryman (Royal Court/ Broadway/ West End); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); The Birthday Party; Consent (National Theatre/ West End); Hangmen (Royal Court/ West End/ Atlantic Theater Company); Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Stories; Exit the King (National Theatre); White Noise; A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); The Brothers Size (Young Vic); Maryland; ear for eye; Girls & Boys; Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court).
Christina TomeiChristina Tomei
Costume Supervisor
Christina Tomei
Christina trained in fashion design and development and began their career working with leading international fashion houses including Marni and Gucci, as well as sportswear brands across Milan, the US and the UK. They later transitioned into theatre, film and television. Alongside costume, they have also worked in set design and set decoration.
Theatre includes:
As Costume Supervisor: The New Real (RSC).
Film includes:
As Set and Costume Designer: The Age of Quorum.
Television includes:
As Set Designer: The Blame.
As Set Decorator: EastEnders.
Phillippe CatoPhillippe Cato
Assistant Director
Phillippe Cato
Phillippe (he/him) is a freelance director, dramaturg, and composer. He is interested in storytelling that centres global majority and LGBTQIA+ voices.
Theatre includes:
As Director: Finding Olokun (Stanley Arts London); Moral Animals (Orange Tree Theatre).
As Associate Director: Noughts and Crosses (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe).
As Assistant Director: My Mother’s Funeral: The Show (Paines Plough/ Mercury Theatre, Colchester/ Belgrade Theatre/ Landmark Theatres/ Royal & Derngate, Northampton); The Big Life (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
As Dramaturg: Hot in Here (UK tour/ Gate Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (ETT/ Leeds Playhouse/ Rose Theatre Kingston/ UK tour); Bogeyman (Edinburgh Fringe).
As Assistant Director, Piano Composer, Musical Director and Choral Arranger: The Little Foxes (Young Vic).
As Associate Director and Choral Arranger: A Raisin in the Sun (Headlong/ Leeds Playhouse/ Lyric Hammersmith/ Nottingham Playhouse).
Access Performances
Audio Described Sat 9 May, 2pm (Touch Tour 12pm)
Captioned Mon 20 Apr, 7.30pm
Relaxed Environment Wed 6 May, 2pm & 7.30pm
BSL Interpreted Tue 12 May, 7.30pm
For full information about how to book for our access performances please visit our Access For All page.
Concessions
All concession tickets are limited and subject to availability. Proof of eligibility is required. Concessions in the final week of performances are only valid on access performances or for Deaf and disabled bookings. More info
Deaf and disabled patrons and a companion can buy discounted tickets by calling the Box Office on 020 7359 4404 or email boxoffice@almeida.co.uk.
£5 tickets will be available to those aged 25 and under for performances from Tue 31 Mar – Mon 6 Apr. Enter code 25UNDER when selecting your seats or click here to book now.
If you are aged 30 or under, over 65 or are unemployed you can book tickets at a discounted rate. Not applicable on Thu, Fri, or Sat.
A limited number of discounted tickets are available for school bookings. These range from £15 (restricted view) to £35 on Mon, Tue and Wed performances only, excluding the final week. There are also two schools only performances on Tue 21 Apr at 7.30pm and Wed 29 Apr at 2pm. For more information or to book, please call the Box Office on 020 7359 4404 or email boxoffice@almeida.co.uk.
Talks and events
Talkback
After Mon 27 Apr performance.
A post-show talk with members of the company. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Almeida For Free
Thu 16 Apr 7.30pm
A free performance and festival of events exclusively for those aged 25 and under. Sign up to our emails for Tickets & Events for 16-25s to be notified when tickets are available.
Production Supporters
A Doll’s House is supported by Dianne Roberts and The Charlotte Aitken Trust.
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