A 'Ghosts' that indicts cowardice, hypocrisy in parenting
People's Light & Theatre Company has given us a phenomenal production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts. It has so much resonance for our time that it could almost have been set in 2014 - except for the prominent place in Ghosts of syphilis, as both fact of life and metaphor. There is no effective treatment for syphilis and for its intergenerational legacy of infection - as there is no treatment for the legacy of moral decay.