Kreten en gefluister

(Cries and Whispers)

by Ingmar Bergman

Ivo van Hove, in collaboration with video artist Tal Yarden and set designer Jan Versweyveld, directs Bergman’s Cries and Whispers. The Bergman Festival in its first co-production with Toneelgroep Amsterdam and deSingel Antwerp.

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May 27 at 8.00 pm & May 28 at 8.00 pm (1h 40 min)
Main Stage, Dramaten
Language: Dutch / Subtitles: Swedish. Meet the artists after the performance on the 28:th of May.

Cries and Whispers from 1972 is considered to be one of Bergman’s most intriguing films. Two sisters (Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin) and a servant are looking after a third sister, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying. Dutch director Ivo van Hove is well-known for his highly acclaimed stage version of Scenes from a Marriage. This time around, he is staging a co-production of Cries and Whispers at Dramaten.

“To be able to work with Bergman’s complex evocation of human suffering and compassion is both a challenge and an honour.” Ivo van Hove.

The play revolves around the theme that the death of a loved one forces you to face your own mortality and the way you live your life. You have to confront your own demons and reconsider the choices you have made.

Toneelgroep Amsterdam is the Netherlands's largest repertory company, and has its home base at Amsterdam’s Stadsschouwburg theatre. Toneelgroep Amsterdam operates on an international level, working with guest directors such as Robert Woodruff (US), Krzysztof Warlikowski (Poland), Johan Simons (Netherlands), and Thomas Ostermeier (Germany). The company has staged productions in Germany, the US, France, Austria and Belgium, and have been invited to festivals such as Ruhr-Triennale, Wiener Festwochen and Festival d'Avignon. Their award-winning repertory includes Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies, The Taming of the Shrew, and Tony Kushner's Angels in America.

Ivo van Hove began his career as a stage director in 1981. From 1998 to 2004, he was the festival director of the Holland Festival, where he annually presented a selection of international theatre, music, opera and dance. Ivo van Hove has been very successful in the United States, where he has staged several plays for the New York Theater Workshop, including Molière’s The Misanthrope and Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. He has also staged John Cassavete’s film Opening Night, Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and his brothers and Wagner's Ring. In 2007 he received the annual Society of Dutch Theatre Critics award.

Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Director: Ivo van Hove
Set design: Jan Versweyveld
Artistic coordinator: Wouter van Ransbeek
Dramaturge: Peter van Kraaij

Sound design / Music: Roeland Fernhout
Video: Tal Yarden
Costume: Wojciech Dziedzic

Production manager: Martin Taminiau

Technical manager: Arist Richartz
Technicien: Bernie van Velzen
Technicien: Marc Bender
Technicien: Valentijn Berkhout
Prop master: David Logger

Technicien: Hugo Stolwijk
Technicien: Hans Pieksma
Technicien: Thijs Kempers
Technicien: Pieter Roodbeen
Subtitles: Erik Borgman
Wardrobe mistress: Micheline D’Hertoge
Make-up: David Verswijveren

Cast
Joakim/Doctor: Roeland Fernhout
Karin: Renée Fokker
Frederik/Priest: Hugo Koolschijn
Agnes: Chris Nietvelt
Maria: Halina Reijn
Anna: Karina Smulders

Assistant director: Remi Beelprez
Assistant costume: Rebekka Wörmann
Assistant set designer: Ramón Huijbrechts

Co-producing: deSingel Antwerpen, Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival

For more information, please visit
www.toneelgroepamsterdam.nl

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