“Ibsen’s play achieves a brilliant narrative layering whereby all five characters in differing ways have the goods on one another...Hill-Gibbins manages precisely that without lapsing into melodrama – always a risk with this text.”
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“Hattie Morahan leads a fine cast and brings her flair for tamped-down, volcanic emotion to the part of Helene Alving, trying to control the damage her terrible sea-captain husband wreaked on her and his offspring...She’s part of a production that makes Ghosts feel poignant and fresh rather than absurd, and that’s no mean feat.”
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“A lot of directors like to put you through the wringer with ‘Ghosts’. In a way Hill-Gibbins goes for the opposite with a production that’s like a warm glass of barbiturates before a slip into oblivion.”
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“It is a production full of clever concepts: I walked away in admiration rather than devastated by its closing moments.”
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“This streamlined new version, adapted and directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, is accessible and absorbing, focusing on themes of coercive control and cycles of abusive behaviour, but balancing the grim content with plenty of pitch-black comedy.”
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“The stranglehold of past misdemeanours on present-day lives, the ‘sins of the fathers’ being visited upon the offspring, and the irresponsibility of men imperilling women’s lives are dramatic themes that resonate down the ages, and ‘Ghosts’ remains a gripping, involving watch. Hill-Gibbins’s bold, bleakly funny but intelligent reimagining of this little theatrical chamber of family horrors is compulsive and quietly revelatory. Haunting stuff.”
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“ ‘Ghosts’ the play cannot escape the past, but this production lives persuasively in the present.”
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"With so many ghosts in the world, these ones feel made up, solipsistic, and a distraction from more pressing concerns. A distinctly un-spooky evening."
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