“When you spend your life in thrall to a monster you find yourself trying to make monstrous things somehow bearable.”
Ever since the death of her high-flying husband, Helena has been a woman on a mission, dedicating herself to reclaiming his legacy. And her hard work looks to be about to pay off, with a new children’s hospital that bears his name on the brink of opening.
But when their son Oz returns home for the grand unveiling, he has some ambitions of his own. Ambitions that threaten to unravel their family’s most closely guarded secrets.
The Lyric Hammersmith stages Gary Owen’s new and contemporary reimagining of Ibsen’s classic. Ghosts is directed by Artistic Director Rachel O’Riordan and reunites the team behind the critically acclaimed Romeo and Julie, Iphigenia in Splott, and Killology.