#OTD in 1891.
Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts (published in 1881) achieves a single London performance, its English-language stage première (at the Royalty Theatre). To evade the Lord Chamberlain's Office's censorship, it has to be staged privately by the Independent Theatre Society, but still attracts strong criticism on moral grounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(play)
Ghosts at PG:
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