In Ghosts, Gary Owen reimagines Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece as a sharp, funny and gut-punching domestic drama set in a misty, grey corner of modern Wales. The result is a striking tale of reputation, self-preservation and the cost of parental sacrifice, delivered with biting wit and tour de force performances.
Victoria Smurfit plays Helena, a woman calmly orchestrating the opening of a new hospital in honour of her late husband. But behind her crisp white athleisure and carefully constructed smile is a woman haunted – not just by the memory of her abusive spouse, but by the choices she made to protect her son from the same fate. But when that son, Oz (Callum Scott Howells), returns from London full of resentment over his cold and distant childhood, secrets start to unravel at a dizzying pace.
