Tron Theatre Company Dark to Present New Adaptation of Ibsen's GHOSTS

Continuing our tradition of breathing new life into classic plays, the Tron Theatre Company production at the centre of our autumn programme is Megan Barker's claustrophobically dark and gripping adaptation of Ghosts. Ibsen's disparaging commentary on 19th century morality becomes, in Barker's up-to-the-minute version, an all-too-prescient tale of child abuse, political corruption, sibling incest and addiction set in the Scottish Highlands.

Alison Peebles takes on the role of Helen Alving, the local councillor whose carefully constructed life is shattered when ghosts from her husband's corrupt and iniquitous past come back to haunt her. Joining Alison will be Laurie Ventry (last seen at the Tron in Edwin Morgan's Dreams and Other Nightmares) as slippery politician Martin Manders, Billy Riddoch as blackmailing scoundrel Jacob Engstrand, Scarlett Mack as Regina, the hard-edged and grasping daughter of Engstrand and PA to Helen, and newcomer to the Tron stage John Hogg, playing the traumatised and troubled Oswald, Helen's son.

Ghosts will be directed by Andy Arnold, with the award-winning Neil Warmington designing, Sergey Jakovsky lighting and a score created by Ross Brown, and promises to be a production that packs both visual and dramatic power.

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