Helen Alving prepares to inaugurate an orphanage in honor of her dissolute late husband, hoping to bury the family's secrets. But her son Oswald returns home carrying the illness he inherited from his father, and the past resurfaces mercilessly. Written in 1881, Ibsen's play is a bold cry against hypocrisy and the "ghosts" of inheritance.
By Henrik Ibsen
Helen Alving prepares to inaugurate an orphanage in honor of her dissolute late husband, hoping to bury the family's secrets. But her son Oswald returns home carrying the illness he inherited from his father, and the past resurfaces mercilessly. Written in 1881, Ibsen's play is a bold cry against hypocrisy and the "ghosts" of inheritance.