U.S. Premiere
Karin (Mulligan) is the central figure in the lives of her family, not least because her own tenuous grip on reality keeps everyone in constant motion around her. On an annual vacation to a beautiful remote island, tensions flare as her husband, father and brother struggle over the best way to help her. When a legacy of denial and repression boils over, threatening the future of the entire family, Karin decides that she must take command of her own destiny.
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY is a vibrant, moving adaptation of the Academy Award® winning film by legendary Swedish director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman.
The stage adaptation of THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY made its world premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London on June 16, 2010.
Postgraduate Work in Bergman Madness
The New York Times profiles Carey Mulligan.
Stage Scenes: Carey Mulligan
The New York Times slideshow on Carey Mulligan's career.
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JASON BUTLER HARNER (Martin) Broadway: The Coast of Utopia. West End: Serenading Louie (Donmar Warehouse). Off-Broadway: Our Town, Hedda Gabler (OBIE Award), The Paris Letter (Drama Desk nomination), Orange Flower Water, The Gingerbread House, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, The Ruby Sunrise, Crimes of the Heart, Macbeth, Henry VIII, Five Flights, Juno and the Paycock, An Experiment with an Air Pump, Mr. Fox: A Rumination. Theatre: The Glass Menagerie (Kennedy Center with Sally Field), The Cherry Orchard (Mark Taper Forum with Annette Bening), The Invention of Love (American premiere) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (American Conservatory Theatre), Hamlet (title role, Dallas Theatre Center), The Front Page (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and work at Yale Repertory, the Huntington, Seattle Repertory, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville and others. Film: Changeling, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The Extra Man, Kill the Irishman, The Good Shepherd, NEXT, New Orleans Mon Amour, Letters from the Big Man, and the forthcoming The Green. Television: John Adams, The Good Wife, The Closer, CSI, Fringe, Law and Order, Mercy, Moonlight, Hope and Faith, CHASE, and the recently filmed pilot of JJ Abrams ALCATRAZ. Training: MFA from NYU Graduate Acting Program.
CAREY MULLIGAN (Karin) returns to the New York stage following her Broadway debut in the 2008 revival of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She received Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award® nominations and a BAFTA Award for her critically acclaimed breakthrough role in the film An Education. For the Royal Court in London: The Seagull and Forty Winks. Other theatre includes The Hypochondriac (Almeida) and Tower Block Dreams (Riverside Studios). Television includes "My Boy Jack," "Dr. Who," "Northanger Abbey," "The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard" and "Bleak House." Film includes Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, When Did You Last See Your Father?, Pride and Prejudice, Brothers, Public Enemies and The Greatest. Upcoming film projects include Drive opposite Ryan Gosling and Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby. She recently completed filming the independent feature Shame opposite Michael Fassbender, directed by Steve McQueen.
BEN ROSENFIELD (Max) Off-Broadway debut. He most recently starred in the film The Virgins directed by Jack Turits (winner of Best Youth Film at the International Harlem Film Festival). Ben has studied theater at the Barrow Group and is a member of the board of directors at the American Comedy Institute.
CHRIS SARANDON (David) On Broadway he has appeared in The Rothschilds, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Nick and Nora, The Light in the Piazza and Cyrano de Bergerac. Off Broadway appearances include The Woods, Marco Polo Sings a Soloand The Devil's Disciple (BAM). He made his film debut in Dog Day Afternoon, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe. Other films include Lipstick. Protocol, Just Cause, Fright Night, Child's Play, The Princess Bride, and Loggerheads. Also, he was tapped by Tim Burton for the speaking voice of Jack Skellington in the animation classic, The Nightmare Before Christmas. On TV he has starred in the dual roles of Sidney Carton and Charles Darnay in the Hallmark Hall of Fame A Tale of Two Cities, as well as Hallmark's You Can't Go Home Again. He has appeared as a recurring guest star on the television seriesThe Practice, Law and Order, ER, Felicity, Judging Amy, and as a regular on The Court. Most recently he was Abraham Lincoln in the acclaimed PBS mini-series,God in America, and the crusty Judge Howard Matchick on The Good Wife. He has just completed work on the feature film, Safe.
INGMAR BERGMAN (1918-2007). Swedish film and theatre director, playwright and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman’s films include Smiles of a Summer Night, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute, Autumn Sonata and the Academy Award® winning Fanny and Alexander, The Virgin Spring and Through A Glass Darkly. He directed extensively for the stage and was Executive Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and at the Residenz Theater in Munich. Through a Glass Darkly was Sweden's contribution to the Venice Biennale in 1962 and won the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film.
JENNY WORTON (Stage Adaptation) is the Artistic Associate of the Almeida Theatre in London. She works alongside Michael Attenborough developing the artistic program, as well as producing the theatre’s bi-annual Summer Festival. She was previously Literary Manager at the Tricycle Theatre, and worked in the Literary Departments at the Bush Theatre, the National Theatre and Out Of Joint. She adapted for the stage Dolls (National Theatre of Scotland and Hush Productions) and acted as dramaturg for the Gate Theatre, London on Breathing Irregular. She wrote the text for the South Bank Show nominated I Am Falling (Gate Theatre, London and Sadler’s Wells). Her original work for Radio Four includes Demonstrating Grace and A Hallowed Space.
DAVID LEVEAUX (Director) is currently represented on Broadway with the critically acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. Previous Broadway productions include Cyrano de Bergerac, Tom Stoppard's Jumpers (Tony Award® nominations Outstanding Direction and Best Revival) and The Real Thing (Tony Award® nomination Outstanding Direction and Tony Award® Best Revival), Fiddler on the Roof (Tony nomination® Best Revival), Nine (Tony Award® nomination Outstanding Direction and Tony Award® Best Revival), The Glass Menagerie, Betrayal (Tony Award® nomination Best Revival), Electra (Tony Award® nomination Best Revival), Anna Christie (Tony Award® nomination Outstanding Direction and Tony Award® Best Revival) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (Tony Award ® nominations Outstanding Direction and Best Revival). London theatre includes Arcadia, Jumpers, The Real Thing, The Late Middle Classes, Nine, Sinatra Live at the London Palladium, Electra, The Father, No Man's Land, Moonlight, Betrayal, The Distance From Here, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Romeo and Juliet, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Also, Rudolph (Vienna); Tales of Ballycumber and The Three Sisters (Abbey, Dublin), The Turn of the Screw (Scottish Opera), The Marriage of Figaro and Salome (English National Opera).
TAKESHI KATA (Scenic Designer) Atlantic: Dusk Rings a Bell, Keep Your Pantheon and School, What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, Port Authority, Birth and After Birth, Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Off-Broadway: Adding Machine, Doris to Darlene…, Orson’s Shadow, Gone Missing, The Attic, Pullman Car Hiawatha. Regional: Elmer Gantry (Nashville Opera/Montclair University), Alley Theatre, American Players Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theater Center, Ford’s Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Long Wharf, The Old Globe, Skylight Opera Theatre, Steppenwolf, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre. Awards: Obie, Drama Desk nom.
JESS GOLDSTEIN (Costume Designer) Career highlights include The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, Jersey Boys (Broadway, London, Australia and US tours), Lincoln Center Theater's The Rivals (Tony Award), Henry IV with Kevin Kline (Tony nomination) and The Most Happy Fella, Next Fall, The Apple Tree with Kristin Chenoweth, Proof, Enchanted April, Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Take Me Out, The Homecoming, The Normal Heart, Stuff Happens, How I Learned to Drive, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Sight Unseen, The Dying Gaul, Dinner With Friends, Tea at Five, Far East, Big Bill, When She Danced, Buried Child, The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards), Jack O'Brien's II Trittico for The Metropolitan Opera and the feature films A Walk on the Moon, The Substance of Fire and Love! Valour! Compassion! He is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama and has taught design there since 1990.
DAVID WEINER (Lighting Designer) Atlantic: Ethan Coen’s OFFICES, CELEBRATION / THE ROOM, and SEA OF TRANQUILITY. Broadway: THE NORMAL HEART, REASONS TO BE PRETTY, BUTLEY, DINNER AT EIGHT (LCT), BETRAYAL (Roundabout, dir. David Leveaux), THE REAL THING (dir. David Leveaux). Recent Off-Broadway and New York: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (TFANA), A SMALL FIRE (Playwright's Horizons, Drama Desk Nomination), BREAK OF NOON (MCC), TRUST (Second Stage), Sarah Ruhl's PASSION PLAY (Epic), EQUIVOCATION (MTC), PICTURES REFRAMED (Lincoln Center), and THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY (Vineyard). Regional: Center Theatre Group, Guthrie, La Jolla, KC Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Huntington, and Williamstown among others. Awards: 2005 Lucille Lortel Award (RODNEY'S WIFE) and nominations (THE SEVEN, 36 VIEWS); Henry Hewes Award nominations (REASONS TO BE PRETTY, BEAUTIFUL CITY, PUMPGIRL, THE OVERWHELMING, and THE SEVEN). www.DavidWeinerDesign.com.
DAVID VAN TIEGHEM (Original Music and Sound) Broadway: Doubt, Arcadia, Born Yesterday, The Normal Heart, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Reckless, Inherit the Wind, Frozen, After Miss Julie, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Crucible. Off-Broadway: Wit, Farragut North, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, How I Learned to Drive, The Grey Zone, Jack Goes Boating. Film/TV: Buried Prayers, Working Girls, “Penn & Teller.” Dance: Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Elizabeth Streb, Michael Moschen. Percussionist: Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, Eno, Steve Reich. Awards/Nomination: Drama Desk, Obie, Bessie, Eddy, Lortel. CDs: Thrown for a Loop, Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, These Things Happen. Internet: www.vantieghem.com
STEPHEN GABIS (Dialect Coach) The Collection and A Kind of Alaska, Port Authority, Parlour Song, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Voysey Inhheritance, Celebration/The Room, The Bald Soprano, The Night Heron, Dublin Carol, Blue/Orange, Hobson's Choice, The Hot House. Broadway/Off Broadway: Brief Encounter, Lombardi, Lend Me A Tenor, A View From the Bridge, Memphis, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Guys and Dolls, The 39 Steps, Jersey Boys, Butley, Coram Boy, Doubt, Frozen, all Mike Leigh plays. For Lincoln Center Theater: When the Rain Stops Falling, The Frogs, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme, A Man of No Importance. Misc. Venues: Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, M.C.C., The New Group, Yale Rep., Hartford Stage, McCarter, Houston Alley, Signature Theatre, Public Theatre, Film: Salt, Bernard and Doris, Across the Universe, The Notorious Bettie Page. Misc. Credits: The Dialect Workshop for the Old Vic Exchange Program (April ’10).
TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting) Broadway/Tours: SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, The Normal Heart, Baby It’s You!, Sister Act, Catch Me If You Can, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Memphis, Rock of Ages, Wicked, Next to Normal, 9 to 5, Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: MCC, Signature. Film: Margin Call, Howl, Sex and the City 1 & 2, Jonah Hex, Main Street, The Other Woman, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector. TV: “UglyBetty” (pilot), “Whoopi,” HBO’s “Undefeated,” commercials
JENNA WOODS (Production Stage Manager) Credits include: The New York Idea (Atlantic Theater Company); The Language Archives (Roundabout Theatre Company); Battle of Black and Dogs, the World Premieres of Notes From Underground, and POP! (Yale Repertory Theater); National tours of The Music Man and Footloose (Props Supervisor); and the North American tour of Riverdance (Wardrobe Supervisor). Jenna holds a MFA in Stage Management from Yale School of Drama. Many thanks to Jo and Jenna B.
JOANNE McINERNEY (Assistant Stage Manager) Impressionism (PA/SUB). OFF BROADWAY: Macbeth and Chair (Theatre for a New Audience); Dramatis Personae, Dreams of the Washer King and Dov and Ali (The Playwrights Realm); SIN (Baruch Performing Arts Center); Love Child (New World Stages); Love Child and Buffalo Gal (Primary Stages). REGIONAL: The Evildoers and The Mistakes Madeline Made (Yale Repertory Theatre); Exits and Entrances, The Island, The Four Poster and Restoring the Sun (Contemporary Stage Company). Jo also served as the PSM at PlayMakers Repertory Company for three seasons. Other credits include: Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Production Glue, 360 Design Events, STREB, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Berkshire Theatre Festival and Battersea Art Center in London. MFA, Yale School of Drama.
