Stage: Ghosts (Copenhagen)

The Royal Theatre; Copenhagen; December 2011 – February 2012

The Royal Theater in Copenhagen is undergoing a financial and administrative crisis. In the midst of its dire straits, it has chosen to showcase German director Michael Thalheimer’s powerful staging of Ibsen’s Ghosts. Ghosts are figures of repetition, and as Lilian Munk Rösing suggests in the program, they haunt not only human characters but every “culturally inherited construction.” The Royal Theater being a case in point, one can only hope that its powers that be have the smarts to take note of their own production.

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