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The play tell us the kind of book Mrs. Alving reads in the script it doesn’t let us know

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Jacob Engstrand called Regina a bitch which was not used in the script

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The see-through background allows the audience a chance to see the other rooms in the house because it is a stage play not a movie from

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The picture of Captain Alving

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Pastor being cold to Regina especially when they were discussing about Regina helping her father

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Mrs. Alving “ …we should discuss the orphanage and not my opinions”

15:05: Pastor Manders “ But discretion, yes?”

Mrs. Alving's face reaction

discretion meaning individual choice or judgement

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They added Ms. Alving having a will

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Pastor Manders didn’t want the building to be insured because of him being just by people outside saying that they didn’t believe God can protect the building, which made Mrs. Alving angry, which lead her to not get the building insured

They funning thing is that Pastor Manders said that if anything happened to the building she will have to pay for it

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Ms. Alving tells Oswald to put the pipe down because Pastor Manders says he looks like his father and Mrs. Alving gets disappointed saying he looks like her than his father

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Mrs. Alving was 19 when she got married, she came to Pastor Manders when he was a divinity student he wasn’t a priest at that time and Mrs. Alving was in love with Pastor Manders at that time

Mrs. Alving went to get comfort from Pastor Manders because she wanted him as a man she loved to understand and comfort her

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Mrs. Alving still wearing her wedding ring

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Mrs Alving looked broken as Pastor Manders hammers insults about her as a wife and her as a mother and while trying to explain to Pastor Manders the truth

You can see the hurt in her voice and in her eyes

Pastor Manders trying to make excuses for Captain Alving despite being a priest

the low suspension of music

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An intense full music would’ve add more spice in the play

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The Dialog Article Says on the Stage set up

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The Dialog Article Says on the Stage set up

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"The first moments of the play allow you to drink in Tim Hatley’s superb design, a crucial part of the play that brings the eerie tone to life . Downstage is a living room with velvet olive-green chairs and a green wooden desk. The wood panelled floor is black, as are the walls, reflecting the slightly ominous feeling in the play. In the middle of the stage is a fake wall, through which you can just make out the dining room upstage."

"The wall makes the dining room appear distorted and disjointed – very ghost-like. The set creates the sense of a real house with depth and memory, yet the wall also creates a feeling of barrier and secrecy; thus, the tone of the play is established instantly and effectively. The entire set is magically mesmerizing."

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Oswald’s illness (often interpreted as syphilis) represents more than a physical inheritance; it’s a symbolic “ghost” of his father’s immoral behavior.

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Mrs. Alving challenges traditional gender roles by questioning societal and religious norms

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Mrs Alving defies her pastor, admits to her intellectual curiosity (reading forbidden books), and tries to free herself from the constraints of her late husband’s legacy.

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Pastor Manders represents the church and societal morality, but his actions reveal deep hypocrisy. He avoids responsibility, judges Mrs. Alving’s decisions, and prioritizes appearances over truth and justice

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The marriage of Mrs. Alving and Captain Alving is portrayed as a facade, maintained for societal approval despite its toxicity.

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Mrs. Alving’s struggle to break free from her late husband’s shadow and societal expectations critiques the limited agency women had in 19th-century society

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Mrs. Alving her wedding ring, which was never mentioned in the script

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Ms. Alving smoking

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Pastor Manders was involved with Mrs. Alving when they were younger, but he let his pride get the best of him, caring about what people would think of him instead of living his truth

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The actor who played Jacob Engstrand didn't really show that Jacob had a limp in my opinion.

I feel like if they did, it would have added more emotion to the characters

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Mrs. Alving hugged Pastor Manders and tried to kiss him, but he rejected her, which left her heart broken, because she still have lingering love for him. I thin he does but he is letting his pride, and the thought of what people will say about them not allow him to show the emotion back

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Mrs. Alving not listen to what her son and is saying and letting important things he was trying to say go through one hear out the other which was making him frustrated

Parents act this way sometimes which makes it hard for there kids to come to them and talk and be open about issues they go through (connection)

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Mrs. Alving wearing black maybe because she is still morning the death of Captain Alving( I highly doubt it she was happy he was death, especially when the orphanage burned down,  she didn’t really care when it burned dow )

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Oswald’s props, like his painting tools, represent his creative aspirations and a stark contrast to the suffocating world he has returned to. They also symbolize his fleeting connection to beauty and freedom before his illness overtakes him.

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Oswald’s props, like his painting tools, represent his creative aspirations and a stark contrast to the suffocating world he has returned to. They also symbolize his fleeting connection to beauty and freedom before his illness overtakes him.

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The morphine Oswald asks for at the end of the play is a chilling prop that symbolizes despair, euthanasia, and the ultimate consequences of inherited “ghosts.” It underscores the play’s moral and emotional weight.

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The play is set entirely in the living room of Mrs. Alving’s home, symbolizing confinement and the characters’ inability to escape their past. The static location mirrors the trapped, oppressive atmosphere of the narrative

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In the script, the reader must infer the relationships between characters from dialogue.

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The script’s exposition, particularly Mrs. Alving’s revelations about her late husband, is delivered through dialogue rather than flashbacks or added scenes.

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While some productions highlight Oswald’s physical decline through acting, they do not add graphic depictions of his illness or the syphilis diagnosis, as Ibsen left it ambiguous and open to interpretation.

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Today, Ghosts is celebrated as a groundbreaking work of realism and a powerful critique of societal hypocrisy

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Feminist critics have highlighted Mrs. Alving as a proto-feminist figure who challenges patriarchal norms and wrestles with her constrained role as a woman and mother.

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When Ms. Alving hugged Pastor Manders and he looked back and Capt. Alving's picture was visible like it was a ghost watching them.

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The stage looked small and the darkness around made you focus on the characters.

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The dining room was translucent. This where Ms. Alvin heard her husband and Regina's mom flirting and the characters looked like ghosts walking around back there.

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A difference that I noticed is that they didn't have acts and scenes so the play felt quick and kept your interest with no breaks.

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The characters used modern language. An example was Oswald used "making love" and "made me puke". This helps the audience follow better with still feeling like they were in the 1800's with the wardrobe.

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At the end when Oswald was letting his mother know he had a disease he was going to grab his private to let her know it was a sexual disease passed on from his dad. In the play they said the disease name, syphilis.

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The stage was dark but there was lights from the chandeliers or table candle that I think represents ghosts.

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"But otherwise, Erye's production grabs you by the throat and never releases its grip". I agree with this because it was intensity from beginning to end. There were not breaks so it built momentum and never stopped.

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Richard Eyre’s first-rate revival of Ibsen’s play grabs you by the throat and never releases its grip, writes Michael Billington

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"There are also fine comic touches in the performances of Brian McCardie as the disreputable builder, Engstrand, who ruthlessly exploits the Pastor’s almost criminal gullibility." In reading the play you couldn't find the humor in these topics but seeing it in Erye's play you saw how blatantly Engstrand was manipulating and how pastor was so gullible that it was laughable.

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Ibsen’s Ghosts, directed by Richard Eyre at the Almeida Theatre, grips throughout and the harrowing denouement is almost too much to watch, writes Charles Spencer.

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"You realize, with a visceral jolt, that what unsettled this work’s early audiences weren’t just the play’s explicit references to unsavory matters like venereal disease."

Ghosts forced its audience to confront uncomfortable truths about themselves and society, and in doing so, it created a profound sense of unease.

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He is judgemental over Mrs.Alvings decisions and shows hypocrisy. He often criticizes others choices.

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Mrs. Alvings sun who is an artist returning from Paris. He embodies a tragic figure because he has inherited syphilis from his father. He suffers greatly throughout the play.

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Objects like the book and newspaper in the living room and the table signify the era’s progressive ideas, contrasting with the characters feelings and conservative mindsets.

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The presence of candles foreshadows the orphanage fire. Symbolizing the disaster of truth being unfolded

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Some of the dialogues were trimmed in other to put focus on specific important conversations and characters emotions

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the film features translucent walls dark lighting in order to bring out the meaning of “ghosts” which created a haunting atmosphere of the past coming back to haunt the characters.