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Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen turned the medium in on itself; the confines of the parlor were a perfect metaphor for the confinements of nineteenth century society. An adaptation of Ghosts at the Loeb transforms Ibsen's sitting room into a chic contemporary country home; the end result is a fine production which resembles Ibsen in form but not in sense...
...Ibsen's world, the legacy of past generations is not knowledge but blameless suffering. This series of revelations leads not to a liberated consciousness but to a tortured tangle of frustrated desire, mental illness, incest and guilt. Self-awareness frees characters from societal ghosts but plunges them deeper into their own personal nightmares...
...fast taxi to catch both Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave in action next month. For two weeks the British-born sisters will appear simultaneously on different stages, Lynn as the upright daughter of a veteran hooker in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, Vanessa as the star of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. Might that box office competition strain family relations? "We'll get along fine, as long as we don't talk politics," says Lynn, who describes herself as a "liberal capitalist" while her sister belongs to the Trotskyite Workers' Revolutionary Party...
...Ghosts. Ibsen, about a woman haunted by ghosts from the past who invade and despoil her present and future. Due for a production at the Loeb this spring. At the Lyric Stage, 565 Boylston St., through February 8. Performances Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees...
Last year this policy resulted in the performance of such gems as More Stately Mansions, probably the worst play Eugene O'Neill ever wrote, and Ibsen's four-hour monstrosity Peer Gynt, which lost half its audience at intermission. The Tutor, unfortunately, stands squarely in this venerable Loeb tradition, succeeding neither as allegory nor as entertainment...