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Ghosts (BATH)

Gala TheatreDurham

10 February 2027 · 19:30

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Elysium Theatre Company Like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. Because of its subject matter, which includes religion, venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia,[3] it immediately generated strong controversy and adverse criticism. Since then, the play has come to be considered a "great play"[4] that historically holds a position of "immense importance".[5] Theater critic Maurice Valency wrote in 1963, "From the standpoint of modern tragedy Ghosts strikes off in a new direction.... Regular tragedy dealt mainly with the unhappy consequences of breaking the moral code. Ghosts, on the contrary, deals with the consequences of not breaking it."[6]