Ghosts — Belvoir

Overview

It was just a matter of time, really. Belvoir's new artistic director has been rummaging through the canon again and come across Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts. Eamon Flack will direct his own adaptation of the work with a cast that includes Pamela Rabe, Colin Moody and Robert Menzies.

Captain Alving has kicked the bucket. Mrs. Alving couldn't be happier about this, owing to the Captain being a serial adulterer and inviting quite a bit of scandal round for tea. Fearful that their son Oswald might take after his father, Mrs. Alving sent him away to France, but now she wants him back. When he returns, she'll come to realise how the sins of the father have been preying on Oswald since birth.

Even adapted, Ibsen plays are always total shame parties. If you've any moral decadence in your bones, purge yourself of it now. If not, you risk having it guilt-flogged out of you by the 19th century's master of the dirty secret in the Upstairs Theatre this month.

Image: Daniel Boud.