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 last {upstage right} goes to a foyer or coatroom of some sort and then outside. The stage itself was dressed as a living room or parlor complete with a working table, and chairs, fancy couches, end tables, a stout fireplace or woodstove, chairs with ottomans, and a delicate coffee table. The upstage “wall” was comprised mostly of glass making up several floor length French doors running from one end of the stage to the next, backed by a rainy backdrop. My first impression of the set was that for such a small stage there was a lot of stuff on the stage and not much working space but my opinion of this is based on my being a dancer used to productions requiring a lot of space to… dance. Also, no curtains so when the doors opened the whole thing was just there for the audience to take in on i
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Pastor Manders, Ibsens Ghosts, Manders Alving, Manders Regina, pastor manders, arrival pastor manders, left leading, steam rising, throughout play, arrival pastor, late husband, real father,
Approximate Word count = 1718
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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