I'm having a month or two of epithanies and have strayed onto this section of mumsnet for the first time today...am utterly fascinated and horrified by some of the threads which have opened my eyes to what and who I am and how I put up with it, accepting both mine and others' behaviour because I am a woman and specifically a wife and mother.
Part of the reason for coming on here is because I'm also a theatre director and will be directing A Doll's House at Christmas. I've always felt it was a feminist text and have ached to direct it for years but not really known how or why and now feels right for me personally and in the wider sense of society.
I was just hoping for some thoughts from people who know it as a play - I want to bring it bang up to date because I honestly believe that Ibsen's issues of women's oppression, emancipation and liberation are as relevant today as they were then, but are now potentially more dangerous because they are hidden under a veneer of respectability or "women can now go to work and have a family, they have CHOICES" when actually they don't, or they do but they still managed to be oppressed by the society they live and and how they themselves run their lives.
The thread about heterosexual relationships was particularly interesting to me - and has made me realise in many ways I act exactly the same as Nora (although I don't have a maid or nanny!)
I feel a bit out of my depth to be honest, trying to formulate my ideas as they come to me, this seems a way of discovering 'myself' in the process.