GHOSTS
By Henrik Ibsen

CAST:
REGINA: Monica Lorin
ENGSTRAND: Eric Cuestas-Thompson
MANDERS: John Kelleher
MRS. ALVING: Carrie Schnelker
OSWALD: Niclas Olson

DESIGN
Niclas Olson

SOUND
Bethany Bevier

BOARD OPERATOR
Erinne Kellogg

ADAPTED and DIRECTED
by
 Niclas Olson

Nominated for Five
BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards

Best Play

Best Direction of a Play
Niclas Olson

Best Actress in a Play
Carrie Schnelker

Best Actor in a Play
John Kelleher

Best Featured Actor in a Play
​Niclas Olson
Playing in repertory with Ibsen’s A DOLL’S HOUSE, New Muses brings another controversial masterpiece to the stage. Years after her husband’s death, Helene Alving (Carrie Schnelker) is preparing to open an orphanage in his honor. With the arrival of an old friend, Pastor Manders (John Kelleher) and her son Oswald (Niclas Olson) the carefully guarded secrets Mrs. Alving has been keeping about her husband begin to unravel. As the sins of the father, and their consequences, become painfully clear, Mrs. Alving is left to question her life, her relationships, and whether or not she will ever be able to escape the spectres of the past.
Dukesbay Theater
508 6th Ave #10, Tacoma, WA
5.5.2016 - 5.22.2016
In Repertory with A DOLL'S HOUSE

Press:

"The New Muses production features a rock solid cast beginning with Carrie Schnelker’s riveting performance as Mrs. Alving. Schnelker commands the stage with a stately presence. She is at times imperious and at times vulnerable... Manders is played by John Kelleher, a dynamic actor who breaths life into the role of a man of the cloth who, while earnest, is too beholden to rules of propriety, is a little too willing to take others at their word, and is somewhat overly concerned about his public reputation… (Niclas Olson) plays Oswald, an artist and the son of the Alvings. Oswald has returned from the sunny parts of Europe to wet and dreary Norway where he is in the midst of a malaise. Mrs. Alving has kept Oswald away from the family in order to protect him from his father’s influence. Tragically, however, Oswald proves to be his father’s son… Two other complex characters round out the cast. Monica Lorin plays the vivacious, bright and dutiful maidservant, Regina. Engstrand, the crippled (both physically and spiritually) carpenter is played by Eric Cuestas-Thompson… “Ghosts” is haunted by an air of doom. At one point in the play Mrs. Alving laments that dead ideas and useless beliefs are passed from one generation to the next long after they have outlived their usefulness.” Dave R. Davison (Tacoma Weekly)

a New Muses Theatre Company production at the Dukesbay Theater