Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts was written to highlight how social morality was used to oppress women in Norway in the 1880s, but it may as well be a story about women in India today. That’s the point that Peechha Karti Parchhaiyaan, a teleplay adapted from Ibsen’s classic, drives home. The adaptation has been written by the multi-talented Ila Arun, who is also starring in the teleplay. 

Arun, who hails from Rajasthan, is renowned for her theatre chops and was exposed to Ibsen’s feminism in the play, The Lady By The Sea, which was inspired by the ballad Agnete og Havmanden, the story of a woman who falls in love with a merman and leaves everything behind to join him in the sea.