BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Henrik Ibsen’s great classic “Ghosts,” as initially presented by United Kingdom’s Almeida Theatre, is presently taking stage at BAM’s Harvey Theater. It is a play that deals with a number of unpleasant human dilemmas: familial lies, incest, venereal disease, and sexism.
But running most deeply throughout is hypocrisy, the hypocrisy of the widowed Mrs. Helene Alving (Lesley Manville). Throughout her life she presented that her long-dead husband, Captain Alving, was a decent and loving man. This pose comes to hurt the person she loves most in the world, her son, Oswald (Billy Howle).
But running most deeply throughout is hypocrisy.
