Scenes from a Marriage
(Scener ur ett äktenskap)
Year: 1973
Cast: 1–2 male, 1–2 female. Additional casting: 2 girls
Set: Interior
(Scener ur ett äktenskap)
Year: 1973
Cast: 1–2 male, 1–2 female. Additional casting: 2 girls
Set: Interior
‘At the end of Scenes from a Marriage, the audience is beside themselves. Applause, cheers and rythmical clapping, enthusiasm in all rows for ten liberating minutes.’– Stuttgarter Zeitung on the Schauspielhaus production of Scenes from a Marriage
Originally a six-part television series, Scenes from a Marriage explores the disintegration of an initially happy marriage over the course of several years. As the play begins Johan and Marianne are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary with an interview for a women’s magazine about the secret of their enviable marriage. But there are already cracks in the façade, and we watch as these begin to widen irreparably; through the bruising turmoil of loss, betrayal and violent recrimination, to a point six years after the couple’s divorce.
Notable productions
- Theatre Workshop, New York 2014 (dir. Ivo van Hove)
- Teatro Maipo, Buenos Aires 2013 (dir. Norma Aleandro)
Starring Ricardo Darín, this production has since its 2013 première been touring all over Latin America and Spain. To date (March 2020), more than 700,000 people have seen it. (Picture above)
- Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart 2013 (dir. Jan Bosse)
- St. James Theatre, London 2013 (dir. Sir Trevor Nunn)
- Residenztheater, Munich 1981 (dir. Ingmar Bergman)