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IMMERSIVE VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS

A Doll's House

Presented at The Haas-Lilienthal House

A Play. A House. A Secret.

Ages: 13 + with parental discretion**

★★★★★

“Following their sold-out premiere, San Francisco Classical Theatre makes Ibsen feel shockingly modern and alive.”

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A Doll's House

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 breathtaking new San Francisco holiday tradition. And the last Christmas Eve in the Helmers’ perfect home.

The Helmers are expecting you.

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A production of San Francisco Classical Theatre, presented in collaboration with the Haas-Lilienthal House, the Gregangelo Museum, and San Francisco Heritage.​

★★★★★

“San Francisco Classical Theatre turns timeless drama into an intimately captivating, fully immersive Victorian experience.”

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​​Dates:

December 2026

- Sundays: Dec. 6, 13, 20 & 27 at 7 PM

- Wednesday: Dec. 23 at 2 PM 
- Thursdays: Dec. 10, 17 & 31 at 7:30 PM
- Fridays: Dec. 11 & 18 at 7:30 PM
- Saturdays: Dec. 12, 19 & 26 at 7:30 PM

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January 2027

- Friday: Jan. 1 at 7:30 PM
- Saturday: Jan. 2 at 7:30 PM

- Sunday: Jan. 3 at 2:00 PM​​

 

Guests: $125 

Family of Four: $475
Maximum of 25 guests
Length: 2 hours
Ages 13 and up

Show in English only
Mixed groups

Food and drinks for purchase on site​

No bags nor pets

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