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A Review of Ibsen'sIbsen’s Ghosts is a story about intrigues, false images, secrets, and lies. Staged at the historical Geva theatre in downtown Rochester, the play was performed on a gradient stage. The scene, a parlor, a room with four doors; the first door {upstage left} leading to bedrooms, the second {downstage left} leading to the kitchen and laundry areas and then outside, the third {downstage right} opens to the dining room and later the cellar, and the last {upstage right} goes to a foyer or coatroom of some sort and then outside. The stage itself was dressed as a living room or parlor complete with a working table, and chairs, fancy couches, end tables, a stout fireplace or woodstove, chairs with ottomans, and a delicate coffee table. The upstage “wall” was comprised mostly of glass making up several floor length French doors running from one end of the stage to the next, backed by a rainy backdrop. My first impression of the set was that for such a small stage there was a lot of stuff on the stage and not much working space but my opinion of this is based on my being a dancer used to productions requiring a lot of space to… dance. Also, no curtains so when the doors opened the whole thing was just there for the audience to take in on i . . .
The lighting design throughout the entire show was truly impressive. The pastor is saved from her advances by the arrival of the lady of the house, the widow Alving, who at first glance seemed an ‘out-there kinda gal’. Pastor Manders is a decidedly upstanding gentleman, a man of the cloth and behaves as such, very stout and proper. Those moments when the actor stops and gazes off into nowhere, looking at nothing but seeing their own thoughts in front of them, these thoughts reflecting on their eyes for the audience to see. Jacob is interesting in that, he is exactly what he seems to be at first glance even though the moral non-judgmental person, like Pastor Manders, wouldn’t be so quick to come to that conclusion and would feel more comfortable giving him the benefit of the doubt. Ibsen may have been using the books as a physical manifestation of Mrs. The more special effects such as the fire at the orphanage and the blazing sunrise were very convincing. This, among other things, is probably what leads her to reveal her secrets about her late husband and Regina, seeing her son and Regina together in that light sparked the memories causing her to see the ghosts of times past and she wishes forgotten. They both believed that they knew what they knew about their fathers, and both of them judged the men they thought their father based on that. ts own like a gigantic dollhouse on display. The show opens with Regina busily tidying up as Jacob arrives, soggy from outside, bearing news of his plan for his sailor home and for Regina’s place in it. My first thought at their interaction was that she’s not really his daughter. It is here that the story begins while the first act was more character building. Common topics in this essay: | |||
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