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First performed in 1882, "Ghosts" is the controversial and tragic play by the famed Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is the story of Helen Alving, a wealthy widow who was unhappily married to her unfaithful husband. Helen has tried to shelter her son, Oswald, from the... Read Full Overview

The innovative dramas of Henrik Ibsen created a sensation among 19th-century audiences with their mordant attacks on social conventions. Among the finest of these ground-breaking works was Ghosts, first performed in 1881. In it, the playwright assailed the hypocrisy... Read Full Overview

Acclaimed director Richard Eyre's version of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it.

Henrik Ibsen (20th March, 1828 - 23rd May, 1906) is often referred to as the father of realism and ranked just below Shakespeare as Europe's greatest ever playwright especially as his plays are performed most frequently throughout the world after Shakespeare's. He was Norwegian... Read Full Overview

Ghosts (original Danish title: Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. The play was originally written in... Read Full Overview

THE STORY: In 1881 Ibsen rocked the literary and theatrical worlds with the publication of GHOSTS, a play so controversial in its time that even the head of Nya Teatern, one of Stockholm's major theatres, called it one of the filthiest things ever

Ghosts, a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, was written in 1881 and like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. Because of its subject matter, which includes religion, venereal disease, incest and euthanasia, it generated... Read Full Overview

There are ghosts everywhere. There are ghosts here right now.

Plagued by the ugly truth of her late husband's legacy, Helene vows to erase the past and start again.

Ignorant to the reality of his father's character, Osvald, her son, returns home to face an... Read Full Overview

Ibsens skuespil i tre akter blev f rste gang udgivet i 1881. Stykkets behandling af utroskab, k nssygdomme og dobbeltmoral i det borgerlige gteskab har gjort det til et af Ibsens mest kontroversielle v rker, men ogs et af hans mest fuldendte og oftest spillede stykker. Gengangere... Read Full Overview

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The winter of 1879-80 Ibsen spent in Munich, and the greater part of the summer of 1880 at Berchtesgaden. November 1880 saw him back in Rome, and he passed the summer of 1881 at Sorrento. There, fourteen years earlier, he had written the last acts of Peer Gynt; there he now wrote,... Read Full Overview

Oswald returns home from Paris to honour his dead father. As his mother begins to feel the presence of ghosts from the past around her, Oswald discovers that there is more to his mystery illness than he first thought. Only by uncovering the truth can they both be set free.

Ghosts is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, in a production by a Danish company on tour. Like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. Because of its subject... Read Full Overview

Ghosts is Ibsen's haunting study of the lingering poison in a marriage based on a lie.