'Ghosts'
Category: Theatre
(2023)
Composer / Sound designer
Run time: 100 minutes
A Landmark Productions and Abbey Theatre co-production
By Henrik Ibsen
A new version written and directed by Mark O’Rowe
• Helena Alving: Cathy Belton
• Regina Engstrand: Simone Collins
• Pastor Manders: Declan Conlon
• Jacob Engstrand: Lorcan Cranitch
• Oswald Alving: Calam Lynch
• Written by: Henrik Ibsen
• Set Designer: Francis O’Connor
• Costume Designer: Joan O’Clery
• Lighting Designer: Sinéad McKenna
• Sound Designer: Aoife Kavanagh
• Image: Patrick Redmond
Premiered in the Abbey Theatre, April 2023.
More Info & Reviews
After several years abroad, Helena Alving’s son has returned home. He carries with him a terrifying secret.
Ibsen’s Ghosts, one of the greatest plays ever written, is a devastating moral thriller in which ideas of love, duty and family are mercilessly put to the test.
This spectacular new version, written and directed by one of Ireland’s leading playwrights, Mark O’Rowe, grabs you by the throat from the outset and refuses to let go – all the way to its electrifying climax.
#Ghosts2023
Reviews
★★★★
A ‘quietly confident production’
The Irish Times
★★★★
‘Intense performances animate Ibsen’s haunted family … this Ghosts succeeds on its own terms’
Financial Times
★★★★
‘Cathy Belton gives an outstanding performance’
The Stage
★★★★
Irish Mail on Sunday
‘Five fine performances’
Irish Independent
‘Superb... exquisitely good theatre’
Sunday Independent
- Abbey Theatre website