A Review of Ibsen's

Ibsen’s Ghosts is a story about intrigues, false images, secrets, and lies. Staged at the historical Geva theatre in downtown Rochester, the play was performed on a gradient stage. The scene, a parlor, a room with four doors; the first door {upstage left} leading to bedrooms, the second {downstage left} leading to the kitchen and laundry areas and then outside, the third {downstage right} opens to the dining room and later the cellar, and …

…the pipe smoke, and see and feel the droplets of water flying off the actors as they came in from outside, even being able to see the steam rising from the lamp and the smoke from Oswald’s cigar added to the essence of the play. These little things that draw the audience into the world of the play, bringing it to life and making it all seem real, thereby accomplishing the goal of theatre.