The Nation
December 19, 1988

...In Ghosts the central absence was also the putative hero, Oswald Alving, played by Raphael Sbarge, and once again it was a man of the cloth, Pastor Manders, played by David McCallum, who redeemed the show. There is a dance exercise that requires being spun about blindfolded until disoriented and then walking slowly and steadily until one has walked into a (preferably brick) wall. McCallum performs each of Manders's successive moral pratfalls with the perfect unwittingness this exercise is meant to teach. It was his perpetual discomfiture rather than Oswald's simmering anguish that came to be the focus of the evening, and this gave the play a flavor more of Shaw than of Ibsen, but it was engrossing for all that....