Created by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, in collaboration with Cat Rodríguez and Ariel Sibert, Exponential Festival in Brooklyn (2019), USA

“A Doll’s House, Part 3” picks up where Nora left off, after slamming the door on her husband and children in 1879. Michael+Patrick’s sequel to the sequel they never read is a self-serious examination of theater, gender, race, class, and hierarchy for the reality TV generation. Michael, Patrick, and Anna Crivelli play Nora’s three children–Bob, Ivar, and Emmie–as they attempt to create an experimental performance collective in resistance to the American New Play Development Complex. They commit themselves to new forms of media performance like ASMR and YouTube makeup tutorials. The trio of siblings works through issues of gender inequity, the hierarchies of creating performance, and inherited trauma as they grow together and apart in the wake of their mother’s absence and simultaneous hyper-presence. This is Ibsen reimagined for a twenty-first century society where nothing is quite what it first appears.