Ghosts and Other Plays – Henrik Ibsen

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Ghosts and Other Plays explores the family’s struggle to stay together through lies and the truths that shatter them.

In “Ghosts,” Osvald Alving returns home and discovers the devastating impact of his father’s debauchery, revealing Ibsen’s most provocative drama that exposes a middle-class family’s layers of hypocrisy and immorality.

“A Public Enemy” pits two brothers against each other when one seeks to reveal facts about polluted water at their hometown’s public baths, while “When We Dead Wake” follows an artist who, after a chance encounter with an old lover, rejects his wife—a symbolic reflection of Ibsen’s own sacrifices for his work.