Ghosts
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 15, 2009
Closed Aug 29, 2009
Opened Aug 15, 2009
Closed Aug 29, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
A woman struggles to keep several terrible family secrets, the implication of which are only worsened by a puritanical Pastor, a lascivious son, and her own guilt-ridden, well hidden past. Full of dark symbols, Ghosts exemplifies Henrik Ibsen's uncanny ability to overturn Victorian social values by using them as the damning elements in his work. Now, BTF favorites Director Anders Cato and Dramaturg James Leverett present a brand new translation of this classic of the theatre.
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Berkshire Theatre Festival, Main Stage
6 E Main St
Stockbridge, MA 01262
BTF is the third oldest theatre in the nation. It is flourishing in a beautiful building that was designed by Stanford White in 1887 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sec. A: Orchestra and front three rows of balcony Se [...] Read More
6 E Main St
Stockbridge, MA 01262
BTF is the third oldest theatre in the nation. It is flourishing in a beautiful building that was designed by Stanford White in 1887 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sec. A: Orchestra and front three rows of balcony Se [...] Read More
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Back in 1881, when Henrik Ibsen wrote his daring play
Ghosts -- now being presented in a somewhat problematic production at the Berkshire Theatre Festival -- sexually transmitted syphilis (the taboo topic that the script dances around without ever naming) was a literal embodiment of the wages of sin. All but guaranteeing a slow and agonizing death, it was a punishment meted out to libertines and their undeserving spouses and offspring alike.
Intent as he was on blowing the lid off this scandalous state of affairs, Ibsen can be forgiven a certain tendency toward histrionics. Fortunately, the felicitous new translation, by director Anders Cato and dramaturg James Leverett, has curbed this p[...]