Ghosts is the opening show of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 10th Anniversary Season. Adapted and directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, this marks the first time that Ibsen has been performed at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Hill-Gibbins says: “It’s a privilege to be staging Ibsen at Shakespeare’s Globe for the very first time, and also to be opening the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse’s 10th Anniversary Season.
“I’m excited to light the candles and see what emerges from Ibsen’s exploration of forbidden desire, and of the social, biological and emotional forces that entrap us.”
Greg Hicks will play Engstrand. Previous theatre credits include Oklahoma! (Young Vic/West End); Dinner With Groucho (Civic Theatre Dublin/Belfast International Theatre); The Oresteia (NT); All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Little Eagles, Anthony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, A Winter’s Tale; King Lear (RSC).
Paul Hilton will play Father Manders. Previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes Dr Faustus, As You Like It and A Mad World My Masters. Other theatre credits include Othello, Mosquitoes and Peter Pan (National Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s); The Inheritance (Young Vic, Noel Coward Theatre and Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York – Tony-nominated).
Hattie Morahan will play Helene Alving. Previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes The Changeling. Other theatre credits include A Doll’s House (Young Vic, West End and Brooklyn Academy of Music – winner Evening Standard Theatre Award and Critics Circle Best Actress Award); Orpheus Descending (Menier Chocolate Factory); Anatomy Of A Suicide, The City (Royal Court); The Dark Earth And The Light Sky (Almeida).
Sarah Slimani will play Regine Engstrand. Sarah is a 2022 graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes The Winter’s Tale and Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights. Other theatre credits include Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors (National Theatre); and Yeast Nation (Southwark Playhouse).
Stuart Thompson will play Osvald Alving. Theatre includes A Taste of Honey (National Theatre); Did I Wake You? (Young Vic); Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Spring Awakening (Almeida).
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, SE1 from 10 November – 28 January. Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat matinees 2pm. Admission: £5 – £65.
Booking: www.shakespearesglobe.com
