By Henrik Ibsen

Director: David Thacker

Designer: Patrick Connellan

Lighting Designer: James Farncombe

“This spare, seamless production touches the raw nerve and might well be a definitive interpretation of Ibsen for our times.”

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Production Information

Written in 1881, Ghosts was deliberately sensational. Ibsen's contemporaries regarded it as shockingly indecent. An English critic described it as ‘a dirty deed done in public’.

Oswald is a young artist who has come back home to be with his mother after a long period abroad. His mother is an educated, Victorian woman, whose radical views are in sharp contrast to the prevailing attitudes in this conservative, northern town.

Oswald’s return and the disturbing news he brings leads to a chain of events that reveals the underlying corruption of this apparently respectable society and leads to a shocking climax. The power and depth of this play had a profound influence on Arthur Miller’s development as a playwright.

Ghosts is gripping, deeply moving and astonishingly modern.

This production is set in Bolton in the late 19th Century.

Please note: there will be smoking on stage during this production.