19 August 2013
Hattie Morahan has won rave reviews for her role in the West End transfer of A Doll’s House. And although her mother Anna Carteret played the part 25 years ago, she still finds the character’s actions incredible.
“The hardest thing I found was how she leaves her children. They’re so young,” says Carteret, whose own children were 10 and 12 when she played Nora at the Riverside Studios in 1988. “I decided in my head that she came back a year or so later when the husband realised what he’d done wrong.
“I’m sure Ibsen wouldn’t have approved. I found it impossible that she just left, although I guess if you were pushed to your extremities and turned into a servant and doll, maybe you’d just have to.”
