Plays & Pantomime
Titles by Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), one of the most famous and influential directors in the history of film.
9 are listed below, 22 are available to view in our comprehensive guide to the theatrical presentation of Ingmar Bergman’s film, television and stage works.
The simple setting is an old stage theatre following an afternoon rehearsal. The actors have left and the aging director, Henrik Vogler, sits alone surrounded by old props from productions of Ibsen and…
Cast Size: 3
The plot catalyst is the death of a famous musician, Felix. Filing past his bier are all the women of importance in his life and his manager Jillker. His biographer, Cornelius, places a manuscript on…
Cast Size: 11
The first Bergman film to star Ingrid Bergman, playing Charlotte, a successful concert pianist. The film concerns Charlotte’s relationship with her dowdy daughter Eva, married to a parson and living…
Cast Size: 10
The story covers the ten-year period from 1909-19 and concerns the Lutheran minister Henrik Bergman and his wife Anna Akerblom. We see Henrik as a theology student, asked to visit his ailing grandmother…
Cast Size: 16
The setting is an old manor house in Central Sweden in the early 1900s. The characters are three sisters and a maid. Two of the sisters, Karin and Maria have come to visit their sick sister who is dying…
Cast Size: 9
The story revolves around a mythic motto invented by Bergman: “A young woman’s chastity is a stye in the eye of the Devil”. Cast in four acts there is an introduction by a speaker in formal attire,…
Cast Size: 4
A writer, Bergman, at his work desk, creates in his imagination the story of Marianne; a woman who is unfaithful to her husband Markus, a conductor, and their 9-year-old child Isabelle, with a theatre…
Cast Size: 5
The time is 1907. The place, Uppsala. Fanny and Alexander are two pre-teen siblings, their parents, Oscar Ekdahl, head of the local resident theatre and Emilie, one of the principal actresses of the company.…
Cast Size: 24
First Scene: “Innocence and Panic” The action opens with an at-home interview. The happy couple Johan and Marianne are interviewed as “the ideal couple” for a ladies magazine. At a dinner party…