Playbill: A new revival of Ibsen's Ghosts opened Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater via Lincoln Center Theater March 10, and the reviews are in. The production features a new adaptation of the play penned by Irish playwright and screenwriter Mark O'Rowe (Normal People). Jack O'Brien is directing. See what critics are saying below.
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This is the second article I have read this week about professional theater doing a piece that is also in the CMU lineup for this year. Honestly, it's impressive how relevant our theater department stays within the ever-changing theater scene. As a university, I knew that historically we have maintained a reputation of excellence in theater and can boast having some of the best, most award winning designers and actors at our fingertips, but it still shocks me to read about it and see it in person. I’m constantly honored to have been selected to study at the School of Drama. As for Ghosts specifically, when I saw our performance of it I was thoroughly impressed and moved by the story. I think that our designers did an excellent job with the lighting and costuming, especially with Johanna’s beautiful translucent dress. I wish I could see it again!
I think after reading some of the reviews for Ghosts at the Lincoln Center and reading the actual article that has all the reviews listed, I'm very interested I mean, I wish I saw it in New York, but after reading these articles, I realized that Joanna is not an actual character in the show she's just mentioned in the script. our production brought her in as a character, but that's not what most productions do, which I find very interesting. I appreciate Johanna as a character. I also did not know that the whole cast of the show is tied to a lot of big celebrity names like Ethan Hawke. A lot of the reviews also seem to not be very fond of how this director directed this show and it handled the contents and depth of the script. I do wish I got to see this production, and I also wish that more adaptations of this included Johanna as a character in the script. I also think that it's important to consider who you are casting in a role and how that character-actor relationship is going to play into your overall production.
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