ATC & The Arcola Theater Present Ibsen's GHOSTS 7/22-8/22 In London

This summer award winning companies ATC and The Arcola Theatre are joining forces to present Rebecca Lenkiewicz's new version of Ibsen's play Ghosts. The collaboration brings together the producers of the acclaimed The Brothers Size and the theatre that presented the award winning production of the Lenkiewicz translation of An Enemy of The People last year.

Written as an expose of what Ibsen saw as the sexual hypocrisy of Victorian society, Ghosts provoked one critic to describe it as "a dirty deed done in public" and had audiences reaching for their smelling salts when it was first staged in 1882. Excited by her son Osvald's return to Norway after years abroad, Mrs Alving is soon forced to unearth the past and ghosts who refuse to be silenced.

The production marks ATC's first project in a series looking at the theme of memory which includes two new plays yet to be announced and a range of Spin Off activities.

Bijan Sheibani is Artistic Director of ATC. His production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size was greeted with universal acclaim and was variously described by UK critics as "Psychologically subtle and emotionally powerful" (The Times), "faultless" (The Guardian) and "outstanding" (The Evening Standard). His Olivier award winning production of Gone Too Far! returned to the Royal Court last year and ATC co-produced the pan London tour to The Albany and the Hackney Empire. Bijan has recently directed a new opera, Tarantula in Petrol Blue at Aldeburgh Music.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz's first play, Soho - a Tale of Table Dancers, won a Fringe First at Edinburgh then toured Israel with the British Council and opened at the Arcola Theatre in 2001. The Night Season, which opened at the National Theatre in 2004, received the Critics' Circle's Most Promising Playwright Award and was nominated for an Evening Standard Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Other plays include Shoreditch Madonna, Blue Moon Over Poplar (Soho Theatre), A Soldiers Tale (Old Vic), Invisible Mountains (National Theatre Education Department), Faeries (Royal Opera House), Justitia (for the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company, UK Tour and Sadler's Wells), an adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of The People (Arcola Theatre), Her Naked Skin (Olivier Theatre, National Theatre), Fighting for Words and Caravan of Desire (BBC Radio 4, 2006).

Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola St, London, E8 2DJ
Boxoffice: 020 7503 1646 boxoffice@arcolatheatre.com
22 Jul - 22 Aug 8pm £16/£10
Previews 22, 23, Jul £10
Matinees 15 & 22 Jul 3pm
Free Post Show Discussions 5 & 10 Aug

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