After the Rehearsal: Bergman's brilliant spotlight on making and watching theatre
Ingmar Bergman's movie unpacks, like no other, the intimate emotional processes of staging and seeing a play In the opening scene of Fanny and Alexander, a boy is alone in an empty house, playing with a toy theatre lit by candles. The 1982 film is an appealing portrait of the artist as a young man and, two years later, Ingmar Bergman presented a similar image in his next film, After the Rehearsal. The theatre directo…