A Doll's House: An Immersive Victorian Christmas

A Play. A House. A Secret. It is Christmas Eve, and you are invited inside a historic Victorian mansion in San Francisco. It is a lavish, living holiday world. The hearth is warm, golden light spills across festive parlors, and someone is at the piano playing something lovely. Nora Helmer has just come home with armfuls of packages, snow on her shoulders, and a secret she has kept for eight years. You follow the story through the house, moving from formal parlors into the intimate private chambers of a family dressed for the season. Sip champagne, steal a forbidden macaroon, and watch the feverish tarantella danced just feet from where you stand as a marriage begins to unravel. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House scandalized Europe when it premiered four days before Christmas in 1879, and the plot remains unsettling today. It is a Christmas play, though it is rarely produced as one, a raw look at how easily we trap ourselves in pleasing everyone else, until only one question remains: What does it truly take to escape? A production of San Francisco Classical Theatre, presented in collaboration with the Haas-Lilienthal House, the Gregangelo Museum, and San Francisco Heritage. The show runs about 2 hours, with a maximum of 25 guests per time slot. Doors open 30 minutes before your ticket time. There is a one-drink minimum, and festive attire is encouraged. Check-in is along the side walkway on the right of the house. There is no on-site parking. All ticket sales are final.