Multimedia play has charm of old movie

Watching Ghosts 2.0 is like enjoying a black-and-white silent movie.

The big projector screen in front of you shows the close-ups of the performers live onstage. You can see their lips moving but without sound, and you can only watch the subtitles.

Ghosts 2.0 is the latest work of avant-garde theater director Wang Chong from Beijing-based Theatre du Reve Experimental. It is an adaptation of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's classic work. The original play tells the story of a woman's desperation when she finds her son has inherited her dead cheating husband's syphilis-a harsh commentary on 19th-century morality.