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"I almost think we are all ghosts. It isn't just what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It is all kinds of dead ideas and all sorts of old and obsolete beliefs. They are not alive in us; but they remain in us nonetheless, and we can never rid ourselves of them. I only have to take a newspaper and read it, and I see ghosts between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the country." Mrs Alving On her country estate, Mrs Alving is building an orphanage in memory of her dead husband. As her son, Oswald, a successful artist living in Paris, returns home and the Pastor arrives to dedicate the orphanage, it seems she can finally bury the painful memories of her past. But over the course of one day, the dark secrets and unresolved tensions of the past are brutally exposed. The strange and complex relationships that bind Mrs Alving and her son to their maid Regina, her father Engstrand and to the priest Manders come to light - and we discover the shocking truth about her dead husband. Ibsen's drama is a taut, searing assault on convention and respectability and the destructive conflict between duty and desire. It caused uproar throughout Europe when first published and when eventually performed on the London stage the critics labelled it "putrid" and "an open sewer." "It may very well be that this play is in a number of respects rather daring. But I thought the time had come when a few frontier posts ought to be moved." Ibsen See the Royal
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(The orange highlight shows the original seats held and should be ignored) Tickets will be handed out either at Monday night's reception or, for people arriving in Manchester later than Monday, sometime during that week. Ticket price is £11.65 - we have the maximum discount. Anyone booking late who wishes to sit close to the main group should check the availability of seats F51-55, E48, E49, D43-53, C36-44 or B33-41. |
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