In terms of sheer inventiveness, "Scenes From a Marriage" may be the season's most daring show. No wonder Ivo van Hove and Emily Mann's eye-popping tour de force is building buzz.
Working from Ingmar Bergman's 1973 TV miniseries about the dissolution of a couple — an academic named Johan and a lawyer named Marianne — director Van Hove and adapter Mann use three different couples of varying ages to tell their story. This grand concept required New York Theatre Workshop to divide its main space into three smaller, distinct ones, with the audience divided accordingly.
You may start off the evening with Johan and Marianne in their mid-20s (Alex Hurt and Susannah Flood), looking pretty content with themselves.
Or you could begin with the same characters in their mid-30s (Dallas Roberts and Roslyn Ruff), when their relationship is on shaky ground.
Photo: Jan Versweyveld
Photo: Jan Versweyveld
Photo: Jan Versweyveld
Everybody gets to see all the couples, because when a scene is over your entire gang is led into another of the spaces to watch a different pairing — and the actors repeat their scene.
This sounds complicated but it's actually very easy to follow. The cramped quarters make the intimacy a little unsettling, and the sound from the other scenes bleeding through adds a sense of foreboding — or déja vu.
But then the production changes tack. When we return from intermission the theater has been put back together into one big open space, with all six actors on stage together.
It's all technically dazzling, especially when identical lines of dialogue are done in quick succession and you can hear how different actors decide to say them.
But at the same time the gimmick dulls the show's emotional impact. The original series — which starred Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson — was so mercilessly raw and bitter that the divorce rate in Sweden reportedly shot up after it aired.
But here you never really feel for any of the Johans and Mariannes. Your brain may be working over time to keep up, but your heart won't be nearly as challenged.
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