The third, and final, part of Ivan van Hove/Toneelgroop Amsterdam’s Barbican residency is a double bill of short film adaptations: both from popular Swedish writer Ingmar Bergman; both with the same cast; and both somewhat cryptic pieces covering themes of personal identity and truth in the theatre.
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The jagged concrete outline of the Barbican Centre, in all its brutalist glory, lends itself fittingly to my mood as I enter – it is hard not to wince, at least subconsciously, at the prospect of six hours of Shakespearean text to be performed sequentially and without interval, in a language you do not speak.…
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