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Ghosts

July 31 - August 18 | Main Stage
2019 Season

NEW TRANSLATION
By Henrik Ibsen
Translated from the Norwegian by Paul Walsh
Directed by Carey Perloff
With Catherine CombsDavid CoulterTom Pecinka, Thom SesmaUma Thurman, Bernard White

With great happiness, Mrs. Alving (Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman) welcomes her painter son Oswald (Tom Pecinka) home from years of living abroad. But when he starts to flirt with the family maid (Catherine Combs), she must intercede to save her son and herself from scandals present and past. Mrs. Alving struggles to find joy in a life bound by the strictures of Pastor Manders (Bernard White) and the spectral chains of mistakes from long ago. Directed by Carey Perloff, Henrik Ibsen‘s vivid and passionate play asks – even now – how far one mother, caught between duty and desire, can or should go to protect her family.

SPONSORED BY


Valerie & George Kennedy

 

2019 SEASON PARTNERS


Herbert A. Allen

James & Virginia Giddens

Jessica & Matt Harris

Paul Neely & Susan Street

& One Anonymous Donor

 



Cast

Catherine Combs

Regina Engstrand

Tom Pecinka

Oswald Alving

Thom Sesma

Jakob Engstrand

Uma Thurman

Mrs. Helene Alving

Bernard White

Pastor Manders

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Press

Gorgeous stage pictures, eerie live music….a sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman.

Uma Thurman brings “qualities of intelligence, poise and integrity” to “a famously difficult role.”

-Jesse Green, The New York Times

Uma Thurman “carries this production with confidence and grace” and “enters into the role of Mrs. Alving as if Ibsen wrote it for her”…“she does not disappoint.”

-Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe

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