Ghosts (NHB Classic Plays)

Ghosts (NHB Classic Plays)

by HenrikIbsen (Author), RichardEyre (Author)

Synopsis

Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of Alving's dissolute life.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 26 Aug 2013

ISBN 10: 1848420633
ISBN 13: 9781848420632

Author Bio
HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906) is the author of A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Brand, Peer Gynt and The Master Builder among many others.

Richard Eyre worked for ten years in regional theatre in Leicester, Edinburgh and Nottingham. He was producer of the BBC's Play for Today from 1978 to 1981, and was Artistic Director of the National Theatre from 1988 to 1997. He has since worked widely in theatre and opera - including in the West End, at the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House, on Broadway and in Aix-en-Provence. His film and television work includes The Ploughman's Lunch, Tumbledown, Iris, Notes on a Scandal, and Changing Stages, a six-part look at twentieth-century theatre. He has received many awards for theatre, TV and film, and was knighted in 1997.