The Rose Tattoo
This guest appearance at Norrköping-Linköping City Theatre of Tennessee Williams' play about Sicilian immigrants was the only Williams' piece with a happy ending.
About the production
In 1951, Bergman's play The Rose Tattoo was produced as a comedy in Copenhagen and as a sombre tragedy in Gothenburg. When he guest-directed the play at Norrköping-Linköping City Theatre, he approached it as a farce and altered both the opening and the ending of the original text. Even more drastically, he cut out the crowd scenes depicting an Italian-American scenario.
The performance was re-staged the following summer.
Sources
- The Ingmar Bergman Archives.
- Birgitta Steene, Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide, (Amsterdam University Press, 2005).
The reviews clearly suggest that he had difficulty creating a cohesive performance with a dominant leading lady and a group of actors with whom he had never worked before.
Collaborators
- Karin Kavli, Serafina Delle Rose
- Sigrid Kaiser, Rosa delle Rose (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Åke Engfeldt, Alvaro Mangiacavallo
- Signe Wirff, Assunta (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- John Harryson, Jack Hunter (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Ulrika Modin, Estelle Hohengarten (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Kerstin Boström, Miss Yorke (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Gertrud Danielson, Flora (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Nine-Christine Jönsson, Bessie (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Sture Ericson, Father De Leo
- Tore Karte, The agent (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Louise Bojar, Guiseppina (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Kerstin Olin, Peppina (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Ruth Hoffsten, Violetta (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)
- Margot Ryding, Assunta (Folkparkerna)
- Pia Arnell, Rosa delle Rosa (Folkparkerna)
- Björn Bjelfvenstam, Jack Hunter (Folkparkerna)
- Marianne Nielsen, Flora (Folkparkerna)
- Asta Bohlin, Bessie (Folkparkerna)
- Gösta Bråhner, Agenten (Folkparkerna)
- Birgit Ekstrand, Guiseppina (Folkparkerna)
- Tennessee Williams, Author
- Ingmar Bergman, Director
- Evert Myhrman, Designer (Folkparkerna)
- Carl Cloffe, Designer (Stadsteatern Norrköping-Linköping)