As a future bank director, Torvald Helmer seems to have reached the climax of his career. He is unaware of how much his wife Nora has contributed to his success. Early in their marriage, when he fell seriously ill, she secretly raised a large sum of money for his treatment. Since, as a woman, she was not creditworthy, she forged the signature of her recently deceased father to obtain the loan. Although the debt has almost been repaid, Nora’s legal debt weighs heavily in the hands of the wrong person: the lawyer Krogstad, who once lent her the money, is now blackmailing her. When Torvald learns the truth, he accuses Nora of destroying both his honour as a man and his career, whereupon she not only leaves her husband, but also their children. Timofej Kuljabin, an outstanding representative of a new generation of Russian theatre producers, shows Ibsen’s figures almost exclusively by means of the digital word, via smartphone or tablet computer, reflecting the multimedia, polyphonic communication that characterises our everyday lives today.
