Ghosts
Ibsen's shocking play opens the Globe's 2023/24 winter season
Ghosts
There are ghosts everywhere. There are ghosts here right now.
Ghosts
Ibsen's shocking play opens the Globe's 2023/24 winter season
Why see Ghosts?
ibsen's shocking tragedy
The Globe's winter season 2023/24 starts strong as Henrik Ibsen's shocking play storms into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from November 10th. The first Ibsen work to grace the candlelit stage, Ghosts is one of his most divisive. A scathing commentary on morality, its themes of incest, STDs, and euthanasia caused controversy on its 19th-century premiere, yet has since become regarded as one of his finest (if rarely produced) masterworks.
What is the story?
The story follows the widow Helene Alving as she tries to start her life anew after the death of her philandering husband. She is determined that her son Osvald will not follow the same path through life as his father, but when Osvald returns home from a trip to France, she discovers that she may already be too late.
Key Information
Audience
Content Guidance: Themes of incest, euthanasia and references to suicide.
Dates
Finished 28 Jan 2024
Reviews
Customer reviews
2 reviews, average rating: (3.0 Stars)
Susan Sargeaunt
Mother Love
It started with the usual done for woman surrounded by men who didn't match up, an alcoholic, libertine, husband whose illicit affairs birthed a syphilitic son, and an illegitemate daughter, who then conjoined as incestuous lovers, and, who, when made aware, became alienated and abandoned, the only recourse being to self- terminate or self- prostitute.
The Mother realised she had been the one to extinguish all light, all joy, both with her husband and son, and that agony was excruciating. ... Read more
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