ABET | Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre

 

ghostsGHOSTS

by HENRIK IBSEN
New Translation by LANFORD WILSON

JANUARY 15-16, 22-24, 28-30 | 2010

Showtimes : Thur, Fri & Sat at 8:00pm | Sun at 2:00pm
Box Office Opens : 45 minutes before show
Doors Open : 30 minutes before show
Admission : Adults - $15 | Senior, Student, Military - $12
Please note: ABET does not accept credit cards. Please pay with cash or a check when you arrive at the theatre.

DRAMA | In this crackling new translation, celebrated playwright Lanford Wilson has revivified Ghosts for a new audience and it has never seemed more profoundly relevant.
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a crisp, clear and often lyrical translation… — Arizona Daily Star
…frank and bold… — Green Valley News

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directed by ERIK DeCICCO

with
DEBORAH JORDAN as Helen Alving
ERIK DeCICCO as Oswald Alving
LESLEY NEDWODNIK as Regina Engstrand
RICHARD SHEFFLER as Reverend Manders
SCOTT PEELER as Jakkob Engstrand

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

ARTICLES

ABET’s production offers a rare opportunity to see Deborah Jordan, head of the acting/directing program at Jacksonville University, perform in the community theater setting. Jordan plays the lead role of Helen Alving.
- TAMARA McCLARAN, Shorelines | READ FULL ARTICLE…

Ibsen is known as the founder of modern prose drama, and many of his plays can stand alone as works of literature.”Ghosts” delivers that kind of literary punch.
- JOHNNY WOODHOUSE, The Beaches Leader | READ FULL ARTICLE…

REVIEWS

Erik DeCicco is making his community theatre directing debut, and judging from the results I saw on stage, he will be directing many more. He is playing the important role of Oswald the son, not through choice but as sometimes happens, people drop out of plays and substitutions must be made. In this case, DeCicco would have been my initial choice, he is perfect for the role, and his scene with his mother at the end of Act II is one of the dramatic highlights of the year in local theatre.
- DICK KEREKES, eu Jacksonville | READ FULL REVIEW…

Deborah Jordan… plays Helen Alving. She is on stage performing most of the show and does an excellent job conveying her character’s difficult and challenging emotional journey. She appears so natural on stage, not as though she is playing a role. It’s been five years since Jordan has performed on stage in the community theater setting and it is a rare treat.
- TAMARA McCLARAN, Shorelines | READ FULL REVIEW…

ABOUT THE PLAY

In 1881 Ibsen rocked the literary and theatrical worlds with the publication of GHOSTS, a play so controversial in its time that even the head of Nya Teatern, one of Stockholm’s major theatres, called it “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, and while its dramatic subjects of promiscuity, incest and sexually transmitted disease no longer arouse the feverish denunciations of Ibsen’s time, their treatment retains the power that has made the play a masterpiece of Western literature.

READ THE DIRECTOR’S NOTE