Through a Glass Darkly
(Såsom i en spegel)
Year: 1961
Cast: 3 male, 1 female
Set: Flexible
(Såsom i en spegel)
Year: 1961
Cast: 3 male, 1 female
Set: Flexible
'Films rarely make good plays. But there is something about the claustrophobia of Ingmar Bergman's work that lends itself to adaptation.'– Michael Billington, The Guardian
Through a Glass Darkly charts a turbulent twenty-four hours in the life of a family on an annual holiday at their summer cabin. Reunited after months apart, a father and his two children try to navigate the unstable bridges holding the family together. Confused and delusional daughter Karin has recently been released from an asylum, but the men of the family have little clue what emotional support she requires. Her father and husband, both cold and intellectual, distance themselves from her recovery process, while the increasingly unstable Karin fixates on her vulnerable and sexually susceptible younger brother.
Notable productions
- Theater Workshop, New York 2011 (dir. David Levaux)
(Picture above)
- Almeida Theatre, London 2010 (dir. Michael Attenborough)
Collaborators
- Ingmar Bergman, Author
- Jenny Worton, Adaptation
- Michael Attenborough, Director
- Tom Scutt, Designer
- Colin Grenfell, Lighting design
- Dan Jones, Music
- Terry King, Fight director
- Julia Horan, Casting director
- Kate Hewitt, Assistant director
- Andrew Higgie, Producer
- Ruth Wilson, Karin
- Ian McElhinney, David
- Dimitri Leonidas, Minus
- Justin Salinger, Martin