car isaac then a doll's house part two with playwright lucas hnath, director sam gold, actress laurie metcalf then a look at the musical "dear evan hansen." >> a contemporary audience is a lot less used to rhetoric and the idea of speaking verse. and i think it's really important to honor the tradition of speaking verse and poetry and giving the audience poetry which has music to it. but i think it's important not to alienate the audience and to claim that poetry but to find a way that it's also contemporary communication. >> the way the play articulates is it talks about that there is a voice inside of your head and that voice is you but you have all these other voices colliding in on it. voices of your parents, of your husband, of the people in your community telling you what you should be doing. and so she has to stop hearing those voices of other people and hear really if i am left to myself, what do i want for myself. >> one of the most effective things about the show is the first sort of 12, 15 minutes when you get to meet evan and give his first mono log and give the first song you get

joining us now is the playwright lucas nate, director sam gold, and two of the stars, laurie metcalfis cooper. i am pleased to have all of them here at this table. welcome, welcome, welcome. lucas, let me begin with you. did you long think about what was going to happen here and over the aftermath of what happened to the character? lucas: yeah. i have always loved the play. i had seen it in many productions. the first thing that came to me was the title. i thought it was an audacious title for a play, "a doll's house, part two." it was not until i started writing it that i had to get serious and get past the joke of the title and really consider what does it mean to revisit the story. charlie: what do you think ibsen intended, for people to think about it and speculate about it? lucas: yeah. i think so. maybe in some ways what i did went against his intentions. i think he wanted that door to slam and us to consider the meaning of nora leaving. but, you know, over 100 years later, i think it is time to revisit that story and think about what does it mean that she left and what would i

car isaac then a doll's house part two with playwright lucas hnath, director sam gold, actress laurie metcalf contemporary audience is a lot less used to rhetoric and the idea of speaking verse. and i think it's really important to honor the tradition of speaking verse and poetry and giving the audience poetry which has music to it. but i think it's important not to alienate the audience and to claim that poetry but to find a way tha