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Excellent production of Ibsen’s ghosts of conduct
GHOSTS
Pentameters by SARA NEWMAN
PERFECTLY cast and superbly produced, this production at Pentameters Theatre is a brilliantly comic adaptation of a Henrik Ibsen masterpiece.
Paul Mooney’s doughy face succinctly expresses the foolish pomposity of Pastor Manders’ code of propriety.
He is as comfortable thunderously condemning what he deems as “inexcusable conduct”, as when he blinks away guilty tears.
The Pastor knows he is partly responsible for Mrs Alving’s continuous years of suffering at the hands of her dissolute husband.
Mrs Alving’s tight-mouthed treachery is portrayed by Valerie Holliman with morbid precision.
Ibsen described his widow character as what his Nora might have become had she never left her Doll’s House.
Subtly pinching her fingers to regain composure or whispering of the horrors of the ghosts of ‘duty’ and public opinion, she is also passionately belligerent, however cowardly she is for protecting her late husband’s reputation.
Perspiring drunkard Engstrand (Seamus Newham), supposed father of Regina (Saskia Willis) and Mrs Alving’s opportunistic house servant, is hilarious without exception.
Wild-haired Dan Wilder’s Oswald, feverish with syphilis inherited from his father, paces the stage full of the joys of life in a red velvet jacket and white ruffle shirt.
The green velvet of the chairs and sofa compliments the black sweeping gowns of Mrs Alving, Regina and the Pastor.
The haunting set is full of shadows, yet the right side of the stage, where the performers display their most volcanic emotion, is bathed in red light, warning of dreadful times to come.
020 7435 3648
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