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Ghosts

Closing: May 10, 2025

Ghosts - 2025 West End History , Info & More

“When you spend your life in thrall to a monster you find yourself trying to make monstrous

things somehow bearable.”

Helena is a woman on a mission. Since the death of her high-flying husband, she has dedicated herself to reclaiming his legacy. And her hard work is about to pay off, with a new children’s hospital bearing his name on the brink of opening.

But when their son Oz returns to the family home for the grand unveiling, he has ambitions

of his own. Ambitions that threaten to unravel their family’s most tightly kept secrets.

Gary Owen’s new play, a contemporary reimagining of Ibsen’s classic, is directed by Artistic

Director Rachel O’Riordan, reuniting the team behind the critically acclaimed Iphigenia in

Splott, Romeo and Julie and Killology.


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You can't tear your eyes away from this vivid retelling of Ibsen which ratchets up the incest
6 / 10

Though this interpretation succeeds in becoming a story for the present, it struggles tonally. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the glut of incest narratives to land on the London stage in the past six months – see also The Other Place and double whammy of Oedipuses – it’s that when the guilty parties get down to it, audiences will gasp then snigger, loudly. Oz and Reggie’s (Patricia Allison) icky intimacy is also met with laughs. And though it gets there eventually, the chemistry between Smurfit’s Helena and Rhashan Stone’s level-headed Andersen (a lawyer not a pastor here) takes a while to warm up.

Gasps and laughter greet this modern revamp of Ibsen’s shocker
10 / 10

Ghosts exemplifies Ibsen’s creed that the key events of a play take place before it starts: everyone is either hiding, or having hidden, something from them. The actors grippingly chart the negotiation of these secrets and suspicions. Victoria Smurfit’s Helena shows how the greater agency of a modern Mrs Alving has not prevented moral compromises but also allows her contemporary solutions. Callum Scott Howells as Oz is sassy, sarcastic but ecstatic at the prospect even of dangerous love.

Review Roundup: GHOSTS, starring Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells
by Aliya Al-Hassan - April 17, 2025


Gary Owen’s new play, a contemporary reimagining of Ibsen’s classic, is directed by Artistic Director Rachel O’Riordan, reuniting the team behind the critically acclaimed Iphigenia in Splott, Romeo and Julie and Killology.

Review: GHOSTS, starring Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells
by Cindy Marcolina - April 17, 2025


Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells are the tragic mother-son duo in an exciting, tense, suspenseful adaptation. Owen shifts the script and makes this classic all about domestic abuse and the power of upper-class disdain. Rachel O’Riordan’s production is a masterclass in distilling tension and concentrating it without frills or games. It’s an emotionally challenging experience, pure theatre.

Ghosts History

Other Productions of Ghosts

1894   Broadway
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1903   Broadway
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1912   Broadway
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1915   Broadway
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1916   Broadway
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1919   Broadway
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1923   Broadway
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1926   Broadway
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1927   Broadway
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1933   Broadway
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1935   Broadway
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1937   Broadway
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1948   Broadway
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1973   Off-Broadway
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1975   Off-Broadway
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1982   Broadway
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1988   Off-Broadway
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2002   Off-Broadway
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2010   West End London Production
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2013   West End West End Revival
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2015   Off-Broadway Brooklyn Academy of Music Off-Broadway Production
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2025   Off-Broadway Lincoln Center Theater
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2025   West End
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