Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Inner beauty

Ghosts<br /> Duchess, until 15 May Off the Endz<br /> Royal Court, until 13 March

issue 06 March 2010

Ghosts
Duchess, until 15 May

Off the Endz
Royal Court, until 13 March

Ghosts is the most Ibsenite of all Ibsen’s plays. In a sub-Arctic backwater two pairs of lovers pursue doomed romances while outside it drizzles constantly. Oswald can’t marry his mother’s serving-girl because his brain is being attacked by syphilis.

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