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Melillo President Executive Prod ucer presents The Ghost Sonata The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden Approximate BAM Harvey Lichtenstein Theater running time: June 20-23,2001, at 7:30pm 1 hour and June 24, at 3pm 35 minutes with Performed in Swedish with simultaneous English translation no intermission Written by August Strindberg Directed by Ingmar Bergman Set design Giiran Wassberg Costume design Anna Bergman Lighting design Pierre Leveau Wigs and masks Leif Qvistriim, Barbro Forsgardh Choreography Virpi Pahkinen Translation Inga Stina Ewbank BAM Theater sponsors: AOL Time Warner Inc. and Fleet Leadership support: The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; The Shubert Foundation, Inc.; The Norman & Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc.; and The SHS Foundation Major support: The Barbra Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Additional support: Consulate General of Sweden and Trallback & Company Official airline for the BAM presentation of The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden's The Ghost Sonata: Scandinavian Airlines 17 The Cast The Old Man Jan Malmsjo The Student Jonas Malmsjo The Milkmaid Virpi Pahkinen The Doorman's Wife Gertrud Mariano The Dead Man Nils Eklund The Dark Lady Gerthi Kulle The Young Lady Elin Klinga The Colonel Per Myrberg Mummy Gunnel Lindblom Johansson brjan Ramberg Bengtsson Ingvar Kjellson Posh Man Anders Beckman The Cook Margareta Hallin The Fiancee Margreth Weivers-Norstrom and Maria Aim-Norell , Sven-Erik Eriksson , Carl-Lennart Frobergh , Per Hedefalk, Henrik Sjogren , Ulf Strandberg The Royal Dramatic Theatre production credits Dramaturg Ulla Aberg Music Bela Bartok * Lighting technician Stefan Berglund , Tommy Sund Sound Jan-Eric Piper Stage manager Tomas Wennerberg First carpenter Claes Snell Prompter Hanna Pauli Property manager Anders Olausson Head of stage crew Kaj Forsgardh Stage technicians Ulrika Behrenfeldt, Morgan Hogberg, Lennart Eriksson Dressers Anna Hedstrom, Ditte Krestesen Simultaneous translation Magnus Florin Assistant director Ulph Bergman Prod ucer Sofi Lerstrom Artistic and Managing Director of The Royal Dramatic Theatre Ingrid Dahlberg *Music for string instruments, percussion instruments, and celesta (1936) English translation performance by Eva Engman , Tana Ross , Anders Cato , Bjorn Olsson 18 The Ghost Sonata is a chamber play in three scenes . It opens on a square in front of an elegant home, where the Student converses with the Milkmaid, who is visible only to him. Hummel , an elderly gentleman, encounters the Student and introduces himself. During their conversation, he learns that the Student is a Sunday Child , which, according to Swedish folklore, means he has supernatural powers. Intrigued, Hummel invites the Student to dinner at the house, where he meets its inhabitants-the colonel; his wife, the Mummy; and their beautiful daughter, the Young Lady-as well as various guests and servants. Over the course of the evening, the Student falls in love with the Young Lady, and secrets are gradually unfolded that reveal the entire cast-except the Student-as both physically and emotionally corrupt. 19 \ALho'c \ALho Ingmar Bergman (director) was born in 8acchae (1996), and PO. Enquist's The Uppsala in 1918. He studied at Stockholm Image Makers (1998 and presented at BAM University College between the years in 1999). 1937- 40. He was production assistant at The Royal Swedish Opera, script writer and Virpi Pahkinen (choreographer) was born in director at Swedish Filmindustry, manager of Finland and studied dance and choreography at Helsingborg City Theater between 1944 and the Dance School in Stockholm 1989-92. She 1946, first director at Gothenburg City has been in several of Ingmar Bergman's pro­ Theater, guest director at several different ductions at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, includ­ theaters (his first production at The Royal ing Peer Gynt, The Time and the Room , The Dramatic Theatre was in 1951), and director Goldberg Variations , The Winter's Tale, and The at Malmo City Theater in 1954. In 1960 he 8acchae. In 1996 she was awa rded Svenska returned to The Royal Dramatic Theatre and Dagbladets Operaprize and Finland's Cultural worked as the theater's manager between Prize for young artists. She has choreographed 1963- 66. Between 1975- 84 he lived in productions for Swedish television and made a Munich and directed plays at the short dance movie, Atom by Atom, 1999. She Residenztheater. He returned to The Royal has performed her solo shows all over the world: Dramatic Theatre again in 1984 and since in Mexico, Canada, Australia, South Africa, then has produced , among others, The Libya , and throughout Europe. She also has Winter's Tale , Madame de Sade, and The performed at Dansens Hus, Kulturhuset, and Image Makers at BAM; King Lear; Miss Julie ; Moderna Dansteatern in Stockholm. A Dream Play; Hamlet; Long Day's Journey Into Night ; A Dol/'s House; Peer Gynt; and Goran Wassberg (set design) trained at The The 8acchae (in Cupertino with the Royal Royal Swedish Opera 's studios. He has worked Swedish Opera). in stage design since 1964, both in Sweden and abroad . Twenty years with Sweden's Anna Bergman (costume design) came to Nationwide Theater resulted in approximately Stockholm in 1985 after studying fashion 120 productions: Richard III, Uttle Shop of design in Paris. At The Royal Dramatic Horrors , and Cabaret, among others. In 1980 Theatre she worked as stage design assistant he designed Moliere's L'eco/e des femmes, to Lennart Mark and Goran Wassberg, before directed by Alf Sjoberg. In 1986 he became making designs of her own. She has designed stage designer at The Royal Dramatic Theatre Strindberg's The Great Highway, Brian Friel 's and has designed such productions as Dancing at Lughnasa, Strindberg's The Shakespeare's Hamlet, Tabori's The Goldberg Pelican, and Anna Reynolds' Red, and she Variations , Gombrowicz' Yvonne; Enqvist's The designed the costumes for Euripides' Helena. Image Makers (directed by Ingmar Bergman Bergman also has designed productions for and presented at BAM in 1999), Arthur Miller's The Royal Swedish Opera, Swedish television , Death of a Salesman (directed by Arthur and Stockholm City Theatre. Miller), and Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (directed by Hans Klinga). Wassberg also Pierre Leveau (lighting design) has lit several has designed productions for opera stages inter­ productions at The Royal Dramatic Theatre: nationally, including Munich and Chicago. He Ingmar Bergman and George Tabori's The designed Ingmar Bergman's television produc­ Goldberg Variations (1993), Euripides' The tion In the Presence of a Clown and recently Liv 20 \ALho'c \ALho Ullmann's film Faithless , which was written by monologue at Dramaten in 1993. Recently Ingmar Bergman. she composed a chamber opera based on Sophocles' Elektra. Anders Beckman (Posh Man) studied acting at Theatre School in Stockholm. In 1973 he Ingvar Kjellson (Bengtsson) has been and some colleagues founded Skanska employed at Dramaten since 1949 and was Teatern, where he worked until it was shut educated at Dramaten's Elevskola. Kjellson is down in 1994. He played the lead role in a director as well as an actor. Roles he has Don Juan, Pantalone in Arlecchino and the performed include Peachum in Bertolt Brecht's Cup of Love, the lead role in Robin Hood , the The Threepenny Opera (1969); Prospero in Indian in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Shakespeare's The Tempest (1982); Orgon in Woland in The Master and Margarita, and the Moliere's Tartuffe; the Cardinal in Witold lead role in Cyrano de Bergerac. For several Gombrowicz' Yvonne, Princess of Burgund; years Beckman was Skanska Teatern 's cre­ and Teiresias in Euripides' The Bacchae . He ative director and directed Kidnapped by has directed such plays as Strindberg's Lucky­ Daria Fo and Cabaret with 9 lives (also for Peter's Travels and One-Act Farces by Georges Swedish television), among others. Beckman Feydeau. Kjellson has done numerous charac­ is continuously involved in television, radio , ters for television and radio in addition to his and film productions. work at Dramaten. Nils Eklund (The Dead Man) has worked at Elin Klinga (The Young Lady) received her Malmo City Theater under Ingmar Bergman's acting training at Stockholm School of Drama management, Stockholm City Theatre , and between the years 1991- 94. She started such private theaters as Maxim, Scala, working at The Royal Dramatic Theatre right Oscars, Intiman, and Vasan . During the after graduation and played Anne in 1980s he belonged to The Royal Dramatic Mishima's Madame de Sade, directed by Theatre's ensemble and appeared in Ingmar Bergman. She also played the role of Strindberg's Master Olaf (1988, directed by Isabelle in Corneille's Blandverk (directed by Lennart Hjulstrom) and Brecht's The Peter Oskarson), Dionysos in Euripides' The Threepenny Opera (1988, directed by Peter Bacchae , and Markisinnan in Yvonne, Langdal). Eklund has played Pirandellos in Princess of Burgundy (both directed by Henry IV at Stadsteatern (directed by Jonas Ingmar Bergman). She played the role of Cornell) and was recently in Beckett's Happy Melibea in Fernando de Roja's Celestina Days (directed by Karl Dunerl at The Royal (directed by Robert Lepage). She recently Dramatic Theatre . played Tora Teje in P.O. Enquist's The Image Makers. Margareta Hallin (The Cook) has been employed at The Royal Opera for 30 years. Gerthi Kulle (The Dark Lady) studied acting She has performed a majority of all the classi­ at the Theatre School in Stockholm. She start­ cal soprano roles , including such modern ed working at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in operas as Siddhartha and Aniara . Hallin also 1969. She debuted with the company in has worked extensively abroad singing opera Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.