drama

Act One - Structure 

A series of interruptions  

·      Play opens:

o   Empty set

o   Audience takes in ‘tasteful furnished room’.

·      Bell rings: (interrupts empty room)

o   Nora enters hallway with

§  Presents

§  Christmas tree

·      Torvald’s work interpreted

o   Nora’s ‘rustling’ & ‘twittering’

o   Leaves his work enters room

·      Bell rings: interrupts [Nora & Torvald] talking about

o   T’s new job

o   The money he will earn

o   Borrowing

o   Christmas plans

§  Christine enters…