Ghosts

The Times“This is not a performance that commands the attention as it should...” We get the message, but you can’t help wishing her emotions had been expressed a little more subtly — not to mention plausibly...

Whatsonstage.com“Ibsen’s Ghosts is no longer shocking, just very depressing...” A programme note oddly suggests there’s a comedy lurking here. No sign of that, nor of any sexual might-have-been between Manders and Mrs Alving. Nothing seems embedded as this cast of fine actors skim nervously around the edges...

Time Out“Sharp's is a performance with the power to haunt...” Frank McGuinness's new version is earthily direct, but the production risks tipping into melodrama...

this is london“Frank McGuinness’s translation lacks density...” The production is insufficiently dynamic, and it doesn’t live up to the title’s promise of haunting theatre. In the end it’s worthy, but not incendiary...

The Stage“Superb acting from this cast...” After a fairly under-powered start, this production really gets going to become a nuanced, powerful and generally well-calibrated showpiece...

The Telegraph“Remains as dramatically alive as ever...” I have a hunch that the production will gain further detail, power and depth as the run progresses — and it is already a chilling, sometimes thrilling account of Ibsen’s merciless depiction of the way the past can poison the present...

The Independent“Shockingly good...” Further proof that English theatre is going through a wonderfully positive patch is furnished now with this terrifically compelling and often disarmingly comic account of Ibsen's Ghosts...

Guardian“Treats this grimly ironic play as if it were a coarse melodrama...” A production that for the most part is characterised by a strident obviousness...

New Statesman“Not yet reviewed”

Financial Times“Not yet reviewed”