Richard Eyre: In the spirit of Ibsen
The premiere of Ibsen's Ghosts caused an explosion of outrage and critical venom. Richard Eyre discusses his new production of the play, and how all acts of adaptation leave a trace of authorial presenceIbsen said of Ghosts that "in none of my plays is the author so completely absent as in this last one". Nine years later, when he was 61, Ibsen met an 18-year-old Viennese girl and fell in love. She asked him to …