Ektoras Lyghizos
Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts
The Alving home on a Norwegian fjord has been likened to the house of the Atreids. Vital lie and dead prejudices hang like a curse over the bourgeois family, and fate, in the form of a congenital illness, strikes down Mrs Alving’s only son. A cornerstone of modern European theatre, Ghosts (1883) mocks the philistine bourgeoisie and their hypocritical puritanism, and forces the audience to confront social, moral and existential issues. With the work’s Greek premiere in 1894, Ibsen would pave the way for Modernity in the Greek theatre.
With the help of a distinguished cast, Ektoras Lyghizos, a talented thirty two year-old director, attempts a personal reading whose focus is on the play’s metaphysical and existential dimension. [D.Κ.]
An Athens Festival production
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Duration 2 hours with no interval.
Scholeion
- 27/07/2008 at 21:00
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