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- 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 immediately generated strong controversy and negative criticism.
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Nov 23, 2023 · This gaspingly intimate revival of Ibsen’s scandalous 1881 play marks the first UK production since 2018 for Brit auteur director Joe Hill-Gibbins.
Nov 28, 2023 · Read our four-star review of Ghosts, starring Hattie Morahan, now in performances at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse to 28 January. Matt Wolf 28 November, 2023, 10:00. Ibsen’s 1881 play Ghosts finds renewed vigour within the claustrophobic confines of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, now launching its 10th-anniversary season ...
Nov 24, 2023 · A reviews round-up for Ghosts starring Hattie Morahan at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London. Ghosts is now playing in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London, which is the first time that a Henrik Ibsen play has been staged at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Nov 23, 2023 · Review at a glance. Productions of Ibsen ’s 1881 play are either sublime or awful: this one, adapted and directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, is very, very good indeed.
Nov 23, 2023 · Ghosts, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, review: Shows the Globe shouldn’t always stick to Shakespeare. Hattie Morahan gives an impassioned turn in Henrik Ibsen's tale of family truth-telling. Hattie...
Ghosts, perhaps Henrik Ibsen’s most unremittingly bleak play, caused a scandal when it was first performed in 1882. It was memorably denounced as an ‘open sewer’ by one critic, for its frank exploration of sexual promiscuity and venereal disease.
Nov 23, 2023 · Hill-Gibbins’s bold, bleakly funny but intelligent reimagining of this little theatrical chamber of family horrors is compulsive and quietly revelatory. Haunting stuff. London's West End. The Playhouse’s first-ever Ibsen staging continues until 28 January.
