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Through A Glass Darkly
Atlantic Theatre Presents Adaption of Bergman’s Academy Award Winning Film
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Under the direction of five time Tony Award nominated David Leveaux, the Atlantic Theater Company, will be presenting Through a Glass Darkly, an Academy Award winning film adapted for the stage by Jenny Worton.
Leveaux received several Tony Award nominations for his presentations of The Real Thing, Jumpers, Nine, Anna Christie, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Currently, he has represented on Broadway Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia.
The prestigious leadership parallels the equally impressive cast list that includes Academy Award nominees Chris Sarandon, Jason Butler Harner and Ben Rosenfield and Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee Carey Mulligan.
First introduced for the stage in 2010 at the Almeida Theater in London, the play introduces Karin, a mother and central figure in her family, who struggles with her own sanity and sense of reality. During an annual remote island getaway, her husband, her father, and brother, argue over how to aid their distressed mother. In order to revitalize their destructive family dynamic, Karin regains her sense of self-worth and destiny after years of suppression.
This play adaptation is based on the Academy Award winning film by the legendary Swedish director, Ingmar Bergman.
Mulligan, who plays Karin, is performing under the permission of the Actors’ Equity Association after her Broadway debut in 2008 in The Seagull. She also received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her role in the film An Education.
Her counterparts also are nominees including Sarandon, playing the father, who makes his Atlantic debut and his return to the stage after 25 years. He may be best known for his roles in the films Dog Day Afternoon and Princess Bride.
Additionally, Jason Butler Harner, who is casted as Karin’s husband, is known well for his part in the Tony Award winning play The Coast of Utopia and his role in the film The Changeling. This is Ben Rosenfield’s Off-Broadway debut in playing Karin’s brother.
Scenic design is done by Takeshi Kata, and costume design is by Jess Goldstein. Through a Glass Darkly lighting is also done by David Weiner, with original music and sound by David Van Tieghem.
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