"No one can accuse The Actors' Group of playing it safe with the works it chooses to present or in the way it stages them." - John Berger, HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN

"The Actors' Group . . . has stubbornly survived as a small performance group by choosing plays that are often difficult and provocative." - Joseph T. Rozmiarek, HONOLULU ADVERTISER

a drama by Henrik Ibsen

translated and directed by Brad Powell

October 22 -November 14, 2010

In 1881 Ibsen rocked the literary and theatrical worlds with the publication of Ghosts, a play so controversial in its time that it was called "one of the filthiest things ever written in Scandanavia."  Once the uproar had died down, audiences proved far more receptive to Ghosts than the literati had initially been.  While its subjects of promiscuity, incest and sexually transmitted disease no longer arouse the feverish denunciations of Ibsen's time, their treatment here retains the power that has made the play a masterpiece of Western literature.  Ghosts has never seemed more profoundly relevant.