Ghosts

By Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Director: Priscilla Jackman
Assistant Director: Matthew Latham
Designer: Angus Konsti
Lighting and Video Designer: Morgan Moroney
Sound Designer:  Paul Prestipino
Movement Support: Gavin Robins
Voice Support: Robert Maxwell
Assistant Voice Support: Rudolf Hendrix
Production and Rehearsal Photographer: Phil Erbacher
Cast list: Jessica Spies, Ryan Panizza, Patrick Mandziy, Philip
D’Ambrosio, Zoe Resnick
Crew list: Thomas Houghton, Leia Loisa, Jodi Rabinowitz, Elif Akgul, Filip
Wyker, Georia Attewell-Moore, Jasmin Gray, Benedict Janczko-Taylor,
Luca Kovacs, Daniel Druery

Date: October 2020

About the project

Ibsen’s Ghosts, produced by the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, is a radical tackling of taboos – incest, infidelity, euthanasia – as potent today as they were 140 years ago. In his greatest play, Ibsen sets out a scathing commentary on gender inequality, middle class hypocrisy, and complicity. Drawing strongly on the play’s historical context, this production unashamedly pitches Ibsen to a 2020 Australian audience with live and haunting electronica DJ soundscapes and state of the art projection that combine with explosive results.

We invite audiences to join us, as we glare unflinchingly into the face of Ibsen’s startlingly radical text, Ghosts – hurling head-on into his breath-taking provocations on gendered power dynamics, family legacy,
generational debt and sexual violence.