Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Inner beauty

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

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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