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I assure you, Torvald, that is not an easy question to answer.
A Doll's House 2006
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I assure you, Torvald, that is not an easy question to answer.
A Doll's House 2006
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I assure you, Torvald, that is not an easy question to answer.
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen 1867
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I assure you, Torvald, that is not an easy question to answer.
A Doll's House : a play Henrik Ibsen 1867
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Torvald was the longest-eared Jack in two hemispheres.
CHAPTER 18 2010
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It might have been that he had come tired from forty miles with the dogs, and it might have been that Torvald was obliged to put his arm about Nora at divers times and to toy playfully with her ear; but, one way or the other, Corliss never attended again.
CHAPTER 13 2010
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That's what happens to Nora Helmer, who believes that she is happily married to Torvald, who loves her very much.
This week's new theatre Mark Cook 2010
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And an actor called Patterson Joseph, who played Nora's husband Torvald, was brilliant.
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In her review of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea in Manchester this week, Lyn Gardner refers to the play's "sly humour" and it is certainly true that director Lee Breuer managed to express Ibsen's radicalism while having a great deal of fun in Mabou Mines DollHouse, a production with an Amazon Nora and a dwarf Torvald as well as lots of silly Scandinavian accents.
Is it OK to laugh at Ibsen? Mark Fisher 2010
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You were not Nora, you were Frona; nor I Torvald, but Gregory.
CHAPTER 18 2010
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