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From: The Press
Date: 20030205
Author:McCARTHY Jan

Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts was so shocking when first written, it was banned. JAN McCARTHY reports on the Court Theatre's production.

Adultery, incest, and venereal disease -- themes so raw and scandalous for 19th-century Norway that when Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen completed Ghosts in 1881 it was banned from the stage.

It was five years before the play made its English debut. It then languished for a further decade before being finally performed in Ibsen's homeland.

Ibsen's audiences were "disgusted and outraged" by Ghosts, says Colin McColl, director of the Court Theatre's new ...

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