![]() ![]() With English surtitles on specific dates. Twenty-five years since it was last staged at the NTG (in 1977), Ghosts returns in a production by Stamatis Fasoulis, who revisits the play that was his directorial debut in 1979. After having been away from home for a very long time, he comes back and begins smoking his father’s pipe. ![]() It is seen from the play that Oswald, takes after his father, Mr. ![]() When Ibsen wrote Ghosts in 1881, he raised a storm of controversy with the boldness of his theme and the way in which he exposed a society of hypocrisy and corruption. The title ghosts is somewhat symbolic due to the repetitive nature of some attributes of the characters. A tangle of secrets and lies, betrayed love, concealment and hypocrisy gradually begins to unravel as masks are stripped away, the edifice of the sacrosanct family is shaken to its foundations, and the ghosts of the past awaken, thirsting for the blood of the living. But beneath the flawless, highly polished surface, something sick and rotten lurks. The old family friend and foundation trustee, Pastor Manders, has also come to deliver a speech about Captain Alving. Her son Oswald, an accomplished painter, who has lived abroad since he was young, has returned for the ceremony. ![]() Alving is preparing for the opening of an orphanage she has founded in memory of her late husband. Ghosts: Act One Summary & Analysis Next Act Two Themes and Colors Key Summary Analysis As Regine goes about her duties one morning as a maid in Mrs. Ghosts ( Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The National Theatre presents the performance "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen. ![]()
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