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Twenty female stage directors and choreographers. One female performer. Twenty different directorial approaches to one topic. Ibsen’s Nora of the 21st century seen twenty times differently, encompassing geographically and culturally conditioned gender questions about the identity of a woman-creator-mother, who resists to be imprisoned in a ‘doll’s house’. Female directors and choreographers from Prague, Nairobi and Ukraine bring their own reality into the character they embody on stage. They explore the ways in which the ever-present theme of Ibsen’s drama resonates in their own cultural environment and their own artistic practice. Limitations by time and space, as well as economic limits encountered by women, especially by mothers, in their artistic practice, serve as a common starting point. Two days of rehearsal to create a two-minute performative fragment. The performer’s body thus becomes a living document, a catalogue of twenty different approaches, a performative anthology of female creators whose voices have long confronted the existing cultural and social space and brought fresh perspectives and provocative ideas to the issue of womanhood in today’s society.