The world is welcome, and generally present when the man or his son go forth to see the elephant and hear the owl.

Provincial hypocrisy is not implied.

But Ibsen can scarcely exist without an atmosphere of secrecy for his human volcanoes to burst through in the end.
Mary Alden as Mrs.Alving shows in her intelligent and sensitive countenance that she has a conception of that character.

She does not always have the chance to act the woman written in her face, the tart, thinking, handsome creature that Ibsen prefers.

Nigel Debrullier looks the buttoned-up Pastor Manders, even to caricature.