GHOSTS: A MUST SEE
We’ve all grown up listening to one ghost story or another, before going to bed, around a campfire, or on a late night television show. The message is always the same: there is SOMETHING UNSEEN OUT THERE, and you should be afraid! Of course, some ghost stories are better told than others, so we might shrink back in pure terror at one telling or laugh out loud at the notion of an impotent ghost with that of another.
While off the WALL’s presentation of Ghosts will not stir pure terror, neither will it invoke laughter. After all, deceit is no laughing matter. Director Simm Landres does a stellar job of collaborating with Virginia Wall Gruenert on her adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 19th century story, one that remains unchanged nearly 150 years later.
If nothing else, Ghosts provokes our thinking and brings to the forefront the fallout of secrets that mask adultery, perversion and other painful circumstances. Isben never allows us to pretend that all is well. Instead, he presents a realistic image of a society that still reeks from an overflow of secrets, unspoken ills that roam around us and through us like ghosts. The secrets are told, from generation to generation. They trail us throughout our lives, following, stalking and haunting, as is their nature. Whether you are a secret keeper or one from whom secrets are kept, you do not go untouched.
Come and watch with open eyes and an open heart. See where the message of Ghosts takes you next time you think of masking a wrong with a secret.
GHOSTS
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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| Sarah Silk, Weston Blakesley, Ken Bolden, Virginia Wall Gruenert, Shaun Cameron Hall Photo: Heather Mull |
While off the WALL’s presentation of Ghosts will not stir pure terror, neither will it invoke laughter. After all, deceit is no laughing matter. Director Simm Landres does a stellar job of collaborating with Virginia Wall Gruenert on her adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 19th century story, one that remains unchanged nearly 150 years later.
If nothing else, Ghosts provokes our thinking and brings to the forefront the fallout of secrets that mask adultery, perversion and other painful circumstances. Isben never allows us to pretend that all is well. Instead, he presents a realistic image of a society that still reeks from an overflow of secrets, unspoken ills that roam around us and through us like ghosts. The secrets are told, from generation to generation. They trail us throughout our lives, following, stalking and haunting, as is their nature. Whether you are a secret keeper or one from whom secrets are kept, you do not go untouched.
Come and watch with open eyes and an open heart. See where the message of Ghosts takes you next time you think of masking a wrong with a secret.
GHOSTS
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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