Name: Ghosts
ISBN: 9781848420632

Henrik Ibsen

Richard Eyre

Acclaimed director Richard Eyre's new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic drama premiered at the Almeida Theatre in September 2013.

Ghosts

A Family Drama in Three Acts

Marguerite Gauthier 

Thomas Kilroy

In this newly revised, freely adapted version of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, Kilroy bravely examines ways in which the sins of a father are visited on children in a family frightened by ghosts. Forces of the past and present collide in this biopsy of the interactions between private and public lives, between Church and secular values, and of the characters' prospects as they try to make up for lost time where there's no space left for the truth.

After Ibsen

Cendrine Marrouat

Powerful psychological drama (1881) exposes hypocrisy of social conventions and society's moral codes. Mrs. Helen Alving is haunted by her husband's infidelities and the disease he has passed to their son. Ultimately, she is forced to acknowledge the "ghosts" that have kept her from living "just for the joy of life." Excellent introduction to the works of Ibsen.

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