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'Love blooms. Love fades. It happens to everyone. It could be happening next door. And in any marriage torn asunder, sifting through the wreckage is going to get messy.
'Even a seemingly perfect marriage has cracks in its facade: cracks that if untended, can become gaping rifts. Johan and Marianne are the ideal couple: two daughters, glittering careers, a lovely home.
'But when Johan admits to sleeping with another woman, he detonates the first bomb in what will become a ferocious and savagely comic battle.
'Joanna Murray-Smith’s fiery adaptation of the Ingmar Bergman classic reunites her with Queensland Theatre’s new Associate Artistic Director Paige Rattray (Switzerland). Real-life power couple Marta Dusseldorp and Ben Winspear play the warring spouses.' (Production summary)
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Stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 Swedish television series Scener ur ett äktenskap.
Produced by Sydney Theatre Company and performed at QPAC Playhouse Theatre : 11 November - 3 December 2017
Director: Paige Rattray.
Designer: David Fleischer.
Lighting Designer: Ben Hughes.
Composer/Sound Designer: Kelly Ryall.
Associate Sound Designer: Tony Brumpton.
Assistant Director: Julia Patey.
Cast includes Loani Arman, Marta Dusseldorp, Christen O’Leary, Hugh Parker, and Ben Winspear.
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Scenes from a Marriage
2017
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essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 397 2017; (p. 69) ABR : Arts 2017;'Famous couples from literature – from Romeo and Juliet to Bridget Jones and Mark Darcy – have enacted storylines built around rituals of courtship and the obstacles they face on the way to marrying. While the ‘marriage plot’ has never gone out of fashion – kept alive, in good part, by Hollywood’s penchant for the rom-com – changing times have led to the emergence of the ‘divorce plot’. Nora and Torvald from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House – which enraged audiences when it premièred in 1879 because of its harsh critique of the ‘holy covenant’ of marriage – might be seen as the ur-couple of this growing genre.' (Introduction)
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Raw, Yet Familiar Portrayal
2013
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column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 September 2013;
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Raw, Yet Familiar Portrayal
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 September 2013; -
Scenes from a Marriage
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 397 2017; (p. 69) ABR : Arts 2017;'Famous couples from literature – from Romeo and Juliet to Bridget Jones and Mark Darcy – have enacted storylines built around rituals of courtship and the obstacles they face on the way to marrying. While the ‘marriage plot’ has never gone out of fashion – kept alive, in good part, by Hollywood’s penchant for the rom-com – changing times have led to the emergence of the ‘divorce plot’. Nora and Torvald from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House – which enraged audiences when it premièred in 1879 because of its harsh critique of the ‘holy covenant’ of marriage – might be seen as the ur-couple of this growing genre.' (Introduction)
