In Performance Video: Lesley Manville Performs Scene from Ibsen's GHOSTS

This week's New York Times In Performance video features Olivier Award-winning actress Lesley Manville in the role of Helene Alving, the aggrieved wife and mother featured in Ibsen's family drama GHOSTS, now running at Brooklyn Academy of Music. In the scene, Helene remembers the pain she and her son suffered through due to her husband's years of lies and affairs. Click here to watch!

Manville is joined by newcomer Billy Howle in Ibsen's GHOSTS, directed and adapted by Richard Eyre and running through May 3 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater. Manville originated the role of 'Helena Alving' at the Almeida Theatre and followed it to the West End.

GHOSTS is described on BAM's website as: "Uncouth family relations. Malicious infections. Upended Victorian mores. Considered shockingly indecent when it premiered in 1882, Ghosts is given chilling new life in this production, which originated at the Almeida Theatre and was transferred to the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions...Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of Alving's dissolute life."