GHOSTS: A MESSAGE OF EQUALITY
To appreciate the culture-changing message of Ghosts, it’s important to identify its real-world context. Ghosts was written in 1881, a time when women were finally beginning to gain some support in the battle for equality. For most of history, women were defined by their role in the family, and men were the managers of business and every other facet of society.
Women activists began to clamor for change. By that time, a handful of men stepped up to support the women’s movement, and Henrik Ibsen was one of those men. His play, Ghosts, challenged the accepted sentiment that women were obliged to play the hand dealt them in a man’s world, pretending to have no intellectual or emotional awareness of the inequalities that enveloped them. Ibsen challenged these long-held teachings through the voice of Ghosts.
Because Ibsen openly addressed cultural taboos, his creative work was viewed as one of the most scandalous messages of its time. Director Simm Landres brings Ghosts to the stage with that same thought-provoking edge so characteristic of off the WALL’s repertoire of plays.
This is one message that stands to be repeated. Join us and you decide, just how far have women come?
A Pittsburgh Theater Premiere
Feb 27-28, Mar 5-7, 12-14 @ 8:00 PM
Matinee Mar 1 & 8 @ 3 PM
Written by: Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by: Virginia Wall Gruenert
Directed by: Simm Landres
With: Virginia Wall Gruenert*, Ken Bolden*, Shaun Cameron Hall, Sarah Silk*, Weston Blakesley*
Women activists began to clamor for change. By that time, a handful of men stepped up to support the women’s movement, and Henrik Ibsen was one of those men. His play, Ghosts, challenged the accepted sentiment that women were obliged to play the hand dealt them in a man’s world, pretending to have no intellectual or emotional awareness of the inequalities that enveloped them. Ibsen challenged these long-held teachings through the voice of Ghosts.
Because Ibsen openly addressed cultural taboos, his creative work was viewed as one of the most scandalous messages of its time. Director Simm Landres brings Ghosts to the stage with that same thought-provoking edge so characteristic of off the WALL’s repertoire of plays.
This is one message that stands to be repeated. Join us and you decide, just how far have women come?
A Pittsburgh Theater Premiere
Feb 27-28, Mar 5-7, 12-14 @ 8:00 PM
Matinee Mar 1 & 8 @ 3 PM
Written by: Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by: Virginia Wall Gruenert
Directed by: Simm Landres
With: Virginia Wall Gruenert*, Ken Bolden*, Shaun Cameron Hall, Sarah Silk*, Weston Blakesley*
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