
International Theatre Database
2018.02.21 ~ 2018.04.14
The Old Vic
‘…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 horses, and magical speaking puppets. And a ghost. And a dog. And a naked lady. But first…’ The Ekdahls are a family of the theatre. Their lives are as messy and passionate as the characters they play onstage. Children Fanny and Alexander have grown up in this loving chaos surrounded by laughter. But when their widowed mother remarries the brutally cold local bishop, their world is turned upside down. In a battle of wills between freedom and repression, a story unfolds about the power of imagination and the endurance of a family’s love for each other. Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s rich, funny and humane masterpiece Fanny & Alexander is adapted for the stage by BAFTA award-winning writer Stephen Beresford and Old Vic Associate Director Max Webster.
Ingmar Bergman
Playwright/Author
Stephen Beresford
Co-Author/Adaptor
Max Webster
Director
Tatty Hennessy
Assistant Director
Hannah Banister
Assistant Director
Alex Baranowski
Composer
Tom Pye
Set Designer
Laura Hopkins
Costume Designer
Mark Henderson
Lighting Designer
Tom Gibbons
Sound Designer
Penelope Wilton
Cast(Helena Ekdahl)
Thomas Arnold
Cast(Carl Ekdahl / Mr Landhal)
Lolita Chakrabarti
Cast(Alma Ekdahl / Henrietta Vergerus)
Kevin Doyle
Cast(Bishop Edvard Vergerus)
Karina Fernandez
Cast(Lydia Ekdahl / Justina)
Annie Firbank
Cast(Lydia Ekdahl / Justina)