Wednesday 16 October - Saturday 19 October, 7.45pm
Including a 2pm performance on Saturday 19 October, 2pm
Henrick Ibsen is a Norwegian playwright and one of the founders of the Modernist theatre movement. He is one of the most famous and controversial writers of the late nineteen century. His major works include Peer Gynt, A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler and Ghosts to name a few.
Ibsen’s work is still popular today with new adaptations being brought to audiences. In 2022 Manchester Royal Exchange performed Nora: A Doll’s House by Steff Smith and the National Theatre brought a new adaptation of Hedda Gabler starring Ruth Wilson and Rafe Spall.
Richard Eyre's version of 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.
Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of Alving's dissolute life.