Trevor Eve and Juliet Stevenson had played the same roles, as husband and wife, in a 1986 West End revival of this play.
Henrik Ibsen's play has been adapted first on stage, Then in silent films beginning in 1922, over radio, on television and even as a ballet by the English National Ballet in 2019 set to a Philip Glass music concerto.
The play concerns the fate of a married woman, who, at the time in Norway, lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world. Despite the fact that Ibsen denied it was his intent to write a feminist play, it was a great sensation at the time and caused a "storm of outraged controversy" that went beyond the theater to the world of newspapers and society.
A Doll's House (1992) was a British television adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen three-act play of the same name directed by David Thacker with Juliet Stevenson ("Nora Helmer"), Trevor Eve ("Torvald Helmer"), and David Calder ("Nils Krogstad").