Ingmar Bergman. SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, dir. Vytautas RUMŠAS

Author of the stage adaptation and director — Vytautas RUMŠAS

Set designer — Virginija IDZELYTĖ

Music adaptation — Antanas KUČINSKAS

Lighting designer — Aistis BYLA

Assistant director — Regina GARUOLYTĖ

Cast:

Johan, professor at the Institute of Psychotechnics — Povilas BUDRYS

Marianne, Johan's wife, divorce lawyer — Adrija ČEPAITĖ

Peter, family friend — Salvijus TREPULIS

Katarina, Peter's wife — Toma VAŠKEVIČIŪTĖ, Dalia MICHELEVIČIŪTĖ

Emma, Johan's colleague, Marianne's classmate, correspondent — Jurga KALVAITYTĖ

Jakobi, patient — Vesta GRABŠTAITĖ, Birutė MAR

Marianne's mother — Dalia STORYK

Author's text read by — Juozas BUDRAITIS

Ingmar Bergman: "Only by feeling each other do we feel alive, even if we cause each other pain."

"It's nice that everything ended up halfway decent. It took me three months to write this opus and a good stretch of life to experience it all. While writing about those two people, delving into their trouble, I became attached to them in a way. They are quite contradictory, sometimes frighteningly childish, and sometimes sufficiently mature. They talked nonsense here, but they also said some wise things. They are frightened, satisfied, selfish, foolish, sweet, smart, self-sacrificing, devoted, angry, gentle, sentimental, unbearable, and worthy of love. All of this at once. So let's see how it all went."

"In my youth, death frightened me. Now I understand, life is just a light that will one day go out, and there is no need to make a fuss about it."

Fårö, May 28, 1972

The work is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited (London)