A Doll’s House Part 2 was the first show we did once returning to school after the initial Covid-19 lockdown, and in some ways we wanted this show to be an event. This was the first performance my university's theatre did outside in many years, so I wanted to find music that could both create an exciting energy before the show, but also fit the show and help elevate the story. Something about the show that I thought stood out was the fact that this play is a sequel to the original A Doll’s House which came out almost 140 years ago, and yet the language of the play does not try to emulate Ibsen. Lucas Hnath wrote the dialogue as a contemporary playwright would, which created this idea of the new and the old colliding to create a work of art, which was the idea I wanted to follow in the music used for the show. After hours of listening and trying to find the right sound, I came across a group called “Danish String Quartet”. This group’s music focuses on brand new arrangements of Nordic folk songs from long ago. I felt like this style of music not only created an interesting atmosphere for the play, but also instilled a sense of excitement and wonder to the piece that I wanted the audience to feel. The music also was a way to honor the Nordic roots of Henrik Ibsen and fit the plays setting of Norway nicely.