Kriss-Krass-Filibom: New Year's Cabaret
'That Bergman! He has a propensity to shock.'Tom (Åke Thomson)
About the production
This New Year's cabaret, Kriss-Krass-Filibom, was opened by a figure named The Occult, after which point the stage was taken over by the Paprika Theatre Company. The Occult resumed momentary control until Romeo and Juliet intervened. Sketches, dancing and musical numbers followed.
Bergman was one of three scriptwriters writing under the pseudonyms Scaplin, Pimpel and Kasper (Punch), hiding behind the latter.
Sources
- The Ingmar Bergman Archives.
- Birgitta Steene, Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide (Amsterdam University Press, 2005).
One review summed up the New Year's Cabaret as follows:
Ingmar Bergman's staging is, as expected, full of ideas. There is speed and vitality throughout the entire undertaking, the actors pop up in every imaginable spot on stage and in the audience, disappear though trapdoors, etc. There is shooting and banging so that the smoke settles like a thick fog over the house.
Collaborators
- Otto Landahl, The occult
- Ulf Johanson, Noak Noaksson
- Dagny Lind, Augusta
- Åke Fridell, Pere Noble
- Monica Schildt, Mere Noble
- Ingrid Luterkort, The primadonna
- Birger Malmsten, He
- Siv Thulin , She
- Karl-Axel Forssberg
- Bertil Sjödin
- Curt Edgard, The extra
- Sture Ericson
- Rune Moberg, Author
- Sture Ericsson, Author
- Ellen Bergman, Choreography
- Ingmar Bergman, Director
- Gunnar Lindblad, Designer