Like many of Ibsen’s better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. It delves into the complicated relationships we weave, the histories we spin, and the curse of our present condition.

Helen Alving, widow of the famed Captain Alving, has not always had the marriage that was shown to the world. He was known to stray, to neglect her, and, at the behest of her priest, she struggled to maintain their marriage believing that her love could reform him.

She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his dead father, a cruel but outwardly charming man. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of Alving’s dissolute life.