100 years of Ingmar Bergman: We are celebrating the birthday of the great Swedish film and theater director. His film series Scenes from a Marriage was a worldwide success: Johann and Marianne have been married for ten years, are professionally successful and have two children. Just a few weeks ago, they were described in a magazine as a modern model couple, but soon the abyss opens up. Does the marriage still have a future after his infidelity? Bergman relentlessly traces the psychological mechanisms of the relationship, the diverging needs for closeness and distance, until the conflicts escalate.
Anna Bergmann, the new drama director, has turned it into a
up-close, two-person experience and is bringing her successful production from Theater Lübeck to Karlsruhe for Bergman's anniversary. The audience can expect a special spatial concept: each stage of the marriage drama is played in a different location. The audience follows the couple on their path to disaster, the intimate view of husband and wife is combined with insights behind the scenes of the theater. This allows the people of Karlsruhe to experience an evening in otherwise inaccessible rooms before they are converted.
