Fanny & Alexander E-Book

Ingmar Bergman

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

'There is no shame in deriving pleasure from this little world.' Siblings Fanny and Alexander are growing up amidst the gilded romance and glamour of 1900s Sweden. But their world is turned upside down when their widowed mother remarries the iron-willed local bishop. As creative freedom and rigid orthodoxy clash, a war ensues between imagination and austerity in this magical study of childhood, family and love. Legendary film-maker Ingmar Bergman's 1982 masterpiece Fanny & Alexander was adapted for the stage by Stephen Beresford. It premiered at The Old Vic, London, in 2018, in a production starring Penelope Wilton and directed by Old Vic Associate Director Max Webster. Stephen Beresford is the BAFTA award-winning screenwriter of Pride. His other plays include The Last of the Haussmans, which premiered at the National Theatre.

Leseprobe

Ingmar Bergman

FANNY &ALEXANDER

adapted for the stage byStephen Beresford

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Original Production

Characters

Note on the Text

Fanny & Alexander

About the Authors

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Fanny & Alexander was first performed at The Old Vic, London, on 1 March 2018 (previews from 21 February), with the following cast (in order of appearance):

ALEXANDER EKDAHL

Guillermo BedwardKit ConnorJack FalkMisha Handley

PETRA EKDAHL/PAULINE/

Gloria Obianyo

ISMAEL REZINSKY

MISS MORSING

Hannah James Scott

CARL EKDAHL/MR LANDHAL

Thomas Arnold

LYDIA EKDAHL/JUSTINA

Karina Fernandez

MR ERIKSSON

Gary MacKay

MAJ

Vivian Oparah

GUSTAV ADOLF EKDAHL

Jonathan Slinger

ALMA EKDAHL/HELENA VERGÉRUS

Lolita Chakrabarti

VEGA/ELSA VERGÉRUS

Annie Firbank

EMILIE EKDAHL

Catherine Walker

OSCAR EKDAHL

Sargon Yelda

ISAAK JACOBI/DEATH

Michael Pennington

MRS HELENA EKDAHL

Penelope Wilton

MR NORDSTROM

Tim Lewis

MICHAEL BERGMAN/AARON REZINSKY

Matt Gavan

FANNY

Zaris Angel HatorAmy JayneMolly ShenkerKatie Simons

BISHOP EDVARD VERGÉRUS

Kevin Doyle

Director

Max Webster

Set Designer

Tom Pye

Costume Designer

Laura Hopkins

Composer

Alex Baranowski

Lighting Designer

Mark Henderson

Sound Designer

Tom Gibbons

Casting

Jessica Ronane CDG

Director of Movement

Toby Sedgwick

Illusion

Ben Hart

Associate Costume Designer

Megan Doyle

Associate Sound Designer

Dan Balfour

Baylis Assistant Director

Tatty Hennessy

Children’s Director

Hannah Banister

Characters

THE EKDAHL FAMILY

HELENA EKDAHL, actress and grandmother

OSCAR EKDAHL, actor, Helena’s eldest son

EMILIE EKDAHL, actress, wife to Oscar

ALEXANDER EKDAHL, their son, eleven

FANNY EKDAHL, their daughter, seven

GUSTAV ADOLF EKDAHL, restaurateur, Helena’s middle son

ALMA EKDAHL, his wife

PETRA EKDAHL, their daughter, sixteen

CARL EKDAHL, scientist, Helena’s youngest son

LYDIA EKDAHL, his wife

MAJ, maid to Alexander and Fanny, nineteen

VEGA, maid to Helena, sixty

ISAAK JACOBI

AARON REZINSKY

ISMAEL REZINSKY

THE THEATRE

MR LANDAHL, the theatre manager

MICHAEL BERGMAN, a young actor, playing Hamlet

MISS MORSING

MR ERIKSSON

MR NORDSTROM

THE BISHOP’S PALACE

EDVARD VERGÉRUS, the bishop of Uppsala

HENRIETTA VERGÉRUS, Edvard’s sister

ELSA VERGÉRUS, the bishop’s elderly, wheelchair-bound aunt

GHOST OF PAULINE, the bishop’s daughter from his first marriage

GHOST OF ESMERELDA, the bishop’s daughter from his first marriage

Note on the Text

Stage directions are in italics.

Narrative lines assigned to COMPANY should be split between the actors.

This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

Prologue

ALEXANDER. Ladies and gentlemen – you are about to witness the longest play in the history of the world!

He imitates the mock groans and cheers of an audience. One voice in particular shouts up –

‘Will it be boring?’

Yes. The theatre has to have boring bits.

Those are for old people.

But there will be wonders too, and marvels – and by the end of it, you will have seen every possible kind of adventure. The dead will speak and the living will fight, and there will be swords and camels and magical speaking puppets – and the end will come – as it comes in all the best stories – with someone being burnt to death. But first – a prologue –

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollst?ndigen Ausgabe!

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollst?ndigen Ausgabe!

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollst?ndigen Ausgabe!

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollst?ndigen Ausgabe!

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollst?ndigen Ausgabe!