"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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“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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“Joe Hill Wood’s direction of Ibsen’s ‘Ghosts’ is a highly atmospheric, tantalising production that grips the audience as strongly as Helene holds onto her son Oswald...An innovative, gripping and authentic production.”
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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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“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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“There are flashes of wit, but there is no hope here to offset all the gloom. So there is no tension. This well-crafted but overgloomy evening left me feeling I was trapped in a radio play I couldn’t turn off.”
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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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