Ghosts review " spirits of the dead haunt Ibsen's gripping classic
Royal and Derngate, Northampton Mike Poulton's new version lends fresh wit to the tragedy without diminishing its emotional intensity A great Manchester Guardian critic, CE Montague, once wrote of Ibsen's play that it has "a kind of aghast grimness, a bald, austere hardness of conception". The good thing about Lucy Bailey's production and Mike Poulton's new version is that they balance the need to overcome the strang…