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Grateful dead

Ibsen would turn in his grave at this production of <i>Ghosts</i>

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

You would think that Australia in general and the Melbourne Theatre Company in particular would be up to a production of Ghosts. Ibsen’s extraordinary drama of sex and guilt and the curse of hereditary syphilis is one of the foundational plays of the modern theatre — austere, dramatic to the point of tragic grandeur and with every kind of intimacy, witting and unwitting, sounded to its psychosexual depths.

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