CAMDRAMETRICS

'Ghosts' is an extraordinary play, recently described by 'The Guardian' as being "a masterpiece." Ibsen described 'Ghosts' as the work he "had to write." Dealing with characters who are unable to escape their pasts, the 'ghosts' of duty and public opinion come to dominate and ruin the lives of the five characters of the Alving and Engstrand families. Touching, among other subjects, syphilis, prostitution, sibling incest, free love and euthanasia, through what one translator, Michael Meyer, called "double-density dialogue" in which characters say one thing while meaning another, 'Ghosts' is an attack on the extent that society invades personal lives.