Ghosts

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While Henrik Ibsen's
Ghosts remains a play of great potency, this new West End version at the Duchess Theatre, directed by Iain Glen and featuring a translation by Frank McGuinness, is a curiously lifeless and static affair. The production is tonally flat, pottering along on one level before lurching abruptly into melodrama for the closing scenes, and with too little room for even brief levity.

In Ghosts, the independent-minded Mrs Alving (Lesley Sharp) is about to open an orphanage in memory of her late husband. Her son, Oswald (Harry Treadaway), an artist who has been living a somewhat bohemian existence in Paris, has returned for the occasion. Although both events seem like cause for c[...]