I was very much looking forward to seeing the new Made In Northampton version of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts , as I had heard on the grapevine nice things about the early previews. Maybe my hopes had been raised too much? Widow Helen Alving is about to dedicate an orphanage she has built in the memory of her late husband, Captain Alving. However, with her son Oswald home after her having banished him away from the family home for his own good, and Pastor Manders visiting on a rare occasion, hidden stories of the past, ghosts, come to bear changing life in the Alving house forever. Ibsen was very much a forward and often controversial thinker with his plays, and here is no different, this is challenging and controversial material for the time, and indeed even now the morals held within have great bearing. It's clearly a brilliant play, however, there are too many issues with this production to make it a perfect version. The opening scene is a tough one to get into, a confron