ABSTRACT
For most people, Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) was a film-maker, an auteur du cinéma, but he was also a writer and a theatre director. The stage was, in fact, his creative base for more than sixty years. He made some fifty films, but he produced twice as many plays. In an often-quoted passage, he called the cinema his mistress and the theatre his faithful wife. As a theatre director he is known primarily as an interpreter of the classics, mainly a handful of plays by Strindberg, Ibsen, Molière – and Shakespeare.
