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Henrik Ibsen, Stephen Unwin
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Henrik Ibsen, Stephen Unwin
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Oswald returns home from Paris to honour his dead father. As his mother begins to feel the presence of ghosts from the past around her, Oswald discovers that there is more to his mystery illness than he first thought. Only by uncovering the truth can they both be set free...
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ACT ONE
A large garden-room with a door on the left, and two on the right. In the middle, a round table with chairs, books, magazines and newspapers. In the back on the left, a window, with a small sofa and a sewing table. At the back, a conservatory smaller than the room, with large glass walls. On the right wall of the conservatory, a door leads into the garden. Through the windows, a gloomy fjord landscape can be seen, half-hidden by pouring rain.
ENGSTRAND is by the garden door. His left leg is slightly deformed, and he wears a boot with a clump of wood under the sole. REGINA, with an empty garden syringe in her hand, is trying to stop him coming in.
REGINA: (Under her breath.) What do you want? Stay where you are. Youâre soaking wet.
ENGSTRAND: Itâs Godâs own rain, my girl.
REGINA: The Devilâs own rain, more like it.
ENGSTRAND: Good Lord, the way you talk, Regina.
Takes a few limping steps forward.
But what I wanted to say was this â
REGINA: Donât clump around like that. The young masterâs asleep, upstairs.
ENGSTRAND: At midday?
REGINA: Itâs no business of yours.
ENGSTRAND: I was out on a spree last night â
REGINA: Iâm sure.
ENGSTRAND: Aye, well, weâre all mortal flesh, my girl â
REGINA: Arenât we just?
ENGSTRAND: â and legion are the temptations of this world â but, as God is my witness, I was hard at work at half five this morning.
REGINA: Iâm sure, but now clear off, will you? Iâm not standing around as if I had a rendezvous with you.
ENGSTRAND: A what?
REGINA: I donât want anyone to find you here. So now you know, beat it.
ENGSTRAND: (Coming a few steps nearer.) Not a chance. Not till weâve had a wee chat. Iâll have finished work on the schoolhouse this afternoon, and Iâll be on the steamer back to town tonight.
REGINA: (Mutters.) Have a nice trip.
ENGSTRAND: Thanks, my girl. Tomorrowâs the opening of the orphanage, and thereâs bound to be a right old knees up and plenty of drink. And I donât want anyone saying that Jacob Engstrand gives in to temptation.
REGINA: No.
ENGSTRAND: Thereâll be plenty of fine folk here. And Pastor Manders is expected from town.
REGINA: Heâs coming today.
ENGSTRAND: There you are, you see. And I wonât have him saying anything against me.
REGINA: Oh, so thatâs your game, is it?
ENGSTRAND: What do you mean?
REGINA: (Suspiciously.) What are you going to trick the Pastor out of this time?
ENGSTRAND: Are you mad? Why would I want to trick Pastor Manders? No, no â heâs much too good a friend for that. But what I wanted to talk to you about, see, was my going back home tonight.
REGINA: The sooner the better, if you ask me.
ENGSTRAND: Aye, but I want you to come with me, Regina.
REGINA: (Astonished.) You want what?
ENGSTRAND: I want to take you home.
REGINA: (Contemptuously.) Iâm not going home with you.
ENGSTRAND: Weâll see about that.
REGINA: Yes, we will. Mrs Alving has brought me up like a lady â as one of her own â dâyou think Iâd go home with you? â to a house like that? No chance.
ENGSTRAND: What the hell do you mean? Are you setting yourself up against your own father, you little hussy?
REGINA: (Mutters, without looking at him.) Youâve often said you had nothing to do with me.
ENGSTRAND: Pah â why do you listen to that?
REGINA: The number of times youâve called me a b â ? For shame.
ENGSTRAND: I never used that word.
REGINA: I know what you called me.
ENGSTRAND: Anyway, that was when I was a bit, well... You know. Many are the temptations of this world, Regina.
REGINA: Oh, God.
ENGSTRAND: Or when your mother was in a temper. I had to find some way of getting back at her, my girl. Always so la-di-da.
Mimicking her.
âLet me go, Engstrand, let me go. I worked for the Alvings at Rosenvold for three years when he was Court Chamberlain.â
Laughs.
Oh yes, she never forgot that Captain Alving was ennobled when she was in service here.
REGINA: Poor mother â you worried her into her grave.
ENGSTRAND: (Shrugging his shoulders.) Oh, aye, Iâm to blame for everything.
REGINA: (Beneath her breath, as she turns away.) And that leg.
ENGSTRAND: What did you say, my girl?
REGINA: Pied de mouton.
ENGSTRAND: Is that French?
REGINA: Yes.
ENGSTRAND: Well, youâve certainly got yourself an education out here, no mistake. It might come in handy one day, Regina.
REGINA: (After a short silence.) So why do you want me back in town?
ENGSTRAND: Need you ask why a father wants his only child? Arenât I a poor and lonely widower?
REGINA: Oh, donât give me that. What do you want me to do?
ENGSTRAND: Well, you see, Iâm thinking of starting a new line of work.
REGINA: (Whistles.) Youâve tried that before â it always ends in tears.
ENGSTRAND: But this time youâll see, Regina. Iâll bloody well â
REGINA: (Stamping her foot.) Please stop swearing.
ENGSTRAND: Quite right, my girl, quite right. I just wanted to say that Iâve put a few pennies aside from working up here on the new orphanage.
REGINA: Really? Good for you.
ENGSTRAND: Whatâs a man to spend his money on out here?
REGINA: And?
ENGSTRAND: Well, you see, I thought of putting the money into something that would pay. A home for sailors â
REGINA: Urgh.
ENGSTRAND: A classy place, of course â not a pigsty. Damn it, no, for captains and first mates. Classy folk, you know.
REGINA: And what would I do?
ENGSTRAND: Help out. Just for show. Wouldnât be hard work, I promise. Youâd do what you like.
REGINA: I see.
ENGSTRAND: Weâd have to have ladies around, obviously. Because in the evening we want to make the place nice â singing, dancing, that sort of thing. Theyâre sailors, Regina â travellers on the oceans of life.
Coming nearer to her.
So donât be a fool and stand in the way. What are you going to do out here? This education of yours, whatâs the use of that? Youâre going to look after the wee ones in the orphanage: is that what you want? Dâyou want to chuck away your youth for the sake of those dirty brats?
REGINA: Not if things work out the way I want them to â Well, they might, who knows? They mi...