Scenes from Ghosts written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) and first produced at Helsingborg, Sweden, on August 22, 1883, starring Hedvig Winterhjelm as Mrs. Alving and August Lindberg as Osvald.
Ghosts was first performed in May 1882 in the United States, produced in Danish for Scandinavian immigrants by a Danish-Norwegian cast in Chicago, at the Aurora Turner Hall. The first performance in Sweden was at Helsingborg on 22 August 1883. Ghosts was produced in Norway in October 1883, and it received good reviews. It was produced independently in September 1889 at Berlin's Die Freie Bühne.
Charlotta Raa-Winterhjelm as Mrs. Alving and August Lindberg as Osvald in the 1883 Swedish performance.
Photos from the first European production of Ghosts, August 1883
Photos from the first European production of Ghosts, August 1883
