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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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FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Ghosts

An extraordinary new contemporary adaptation featuring a collection of electrifying performances.
10 / 10

Owen revises Ibsen with tact. He doesn’t merely translate the text for a modern audience by making cuts and altering the language: this is a whole new play. He maintains all the original beats, but adds a layer of modern investment to the story, transposing it in a way that makes complete sense in the here and now. The working-class struggle coexists on the same level as wealthy Gen Z ennui and the lack of prospects for new generations. But that’s not the point of this. Oz’s rich-people problems pale in the shadow of the Captain’s deeds. Yet, Owen refrains from introducing his characters as bare vehicles of immorality who come down their ivory tower to deliver a message to the masses. They’re complex creatures who suffer the consequences of the world they live in. The show is tender and raw; domestic abuse becomes a gilded cage.

A frustrating, awkward update
4 / 10

Peals of audience laughter are not the sound you normally associate with Ibsen. Gary Owen’s updated version of the playwright’s brooding drama about an embattled widow, an orphanage and the poisonous legacy of a dissolute husband certainly isn’t lacking in courage. In his latest offering at the Lyric Hammersmith in London the Welsh playwright throws himself into rearranging the original storyline of Ghosts, but the sudden shifts in tone, sometimes lurching from awkward comedy to Grand Guignol in a few sentences, undermine Rachel O’Riordan’s production.

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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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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