that was the basic idea. >> rose: so, i mean, where would you rank ibsen? where do you rank this play? >> it's one of the most important plays in dramatic literature, one because it was extremely shocking when it was written, you know, to give a woman that -- you know, the things you were talking to lucas about, about her inner voice, to give a woman that decision to leave her family, to leave her children and to leave at the end of that play and that door slamming was an incredibly important moment in cultural history and theater history and then it's a great role actors have played forever and you get to watch a great actor play. you know, it's one of the great roles. >> rose: before we started, janet was here in 1997 in the role of nora. >> you get to watch people reinterpret that part like janet did in '97. for this play, it's a chance to get to see someone play nora, but also get to see someone in a completely new play. it borrows from the old play but it really is its own play that gets to use some of the context of ibsen but it's really lucas and luc

charlie: what do you think ibsen intended?eople to think about it and speculate about it for all the years after? >> may be what i did in some ways goes against his intentions. i think he wanted the door to slam and us to consider the meaning of nora leaving, but over 100 years later, i think it is time for us to revisit that story and think about what it does it mean that she left and what would it mean to return and what would bring her back? charlie: is there much debate over how she turned out, rather than how she might have turned out? >> i love the fact that lucas, when he had the idea of what nora's outcome would be, he i think he polled some of your friends, would it be positive or negative. she had such limited options, and with no skills and no education, the stigma of being a divorced woman in 1879, people thought her options would be negative, so lucas wanted to go in the opposite direction. when i mean in a positive way, i mean a successful way. she is a success. charlie: people believe ibsen intended it as a femi

jimmy: of course. [ laughter ] tell me about ibsen.he sequel because it stands on its own. but you might also think because of the title that it's a drama and that it's a period piece and kind of stuffy and, you know, dated. it's fresh and funny. >> jimmy: laughs. >> and it's real provocative. it's so funny. >> jimmy: dude, everybody. you're getting the best reviews and well deserved because they're saying how funny you are in this. so and i cannot wait. i mean you're down the street, so i just can't wait. i want to check this out. but now you're nominated for a a tony award. >> is that exciting to you? when you go to the tony awards? yes, it was so exciting. the whole cast got nominated. so we had a wonderful -- on the tuesday when the announcements came out, we had a great show. we had a -- >> jimmy: yeah, absolutely. >> we had a toast afterwards. and i think we all wanted to get in a car together. there's only four of us in the show. so us and our dates and -- roll have the whole cast pour out. l. >> jimmy: just do it! [ cheers and

. >> reporter: a doll's house is henrik ibsen's most famous play, adapted for the screen many times.et your ring back. >> reporter: a domestic tragedy about a woman who gradually realizes she can no longer bear to stay in her sham of a marriage. >> good-bye. >> she's an iconic feminist character. a victorian-era woman who leaves her suffocating marriage and her three children. >> yes. >> and walks out the door. >> yes. >> hold on i'm coming! >> "part 2" opens with a knock on the door. 15 years of complete silence from her, the family doesn't know what has become of her, you also don't know when she shows up what she's been doing to provide for herself. >> reporter: nora and lucas part 2 is financially independent and happily liberated. she's made her own way in the world. >> yes. >> and yet this decision came at huge cost. >> yes. >> for her and everyone else. >> yes, and she has to deal with that as she meets each character one by one in the show. >> reporter: 15 years of therapy packed into an hour and a half play. as she puts it, the play is like a round robin boxing match on marr