23 to 31 May
In the Studio

GHOSTS
by HENRIK IBSEN

a version by Richard Eyre

directed by Jerry Lyne

This production contains the use of haze and some adult themes

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Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on return from his life as a painter in France, she discovers Oswald has already suffered the devastating consequences of his father’s actions.

Ibsen’s positively abominable new play is called Ghosts… an open drain, a loathsome sore unbandaged; a dirty act done publicly; a lazar house with all its windows open… candid foulness… offensive cynicism… Ibsen’s melancholy and malodorous world… absolutely loathsome and fetid… gross almost putrid indecorum… literary carrion … crapulous stuff.

Victorian Critics initial response to Ghosts leading to the play being BANNED

Brilliant, vital and enormously intelligent, Ghosts is one of the most memorable plays in modern literature.
Although what was considered scandalous in 1881 may seem dated by today’s standards, the play still has a good deal of relevance in a modern context. The play deals with even more universal and timeless themes: domestic abuse, sexual exploitation, euthanasia, incest and moral hypocrisy.

This adaptation by Richard Eyre brings out the essence of Ghosts perfectly in two short acts

 An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books