A review by david_rhee
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

3.0

Henrik Ibsen rolls out another unlikeable cast in Ghosts in a quick hitting 3-act play with plenty of twists and turns. Even now in our time, this play could be seen as scandalous if one is alert enough to catch the surprises here and there. It could pass as just pure shock-value libertinism complete with the inflexible Pastor Manders acting as the rigid counterweight. The idea of the burden of our past, or Ghosts, can still hang onto us no matter where we believe our progressivism takes us. Is life lived just as much forwards as it is backwards?