TEHRAN- The Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) cinematheque will screen A Dream Play directed by the Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman on Wednesday.Set for 5 p.m., the screening will be followed by an evaluation session with Abbas Ghaffari as the host and theater critic Alireza Naraghi, ISNA reported.The made-for-television movie, made in 1963, was Bergmans first production of the Swedish playwright August Strindbergs name dream play.First released in 1902, the play remains one of Strindbergs the majority of admired and influential dramas, seen as a crucial precursor to both dramatic Expressionism and Surrealism.The primary character in the play is Agnes, a child of the Vedic god Indra.
She comes down to Earth to attest to the issues of people.
She fulfills about 40 characters, a few of them having a clearly symbolical value (such as 4 deans representing faith, philosophy, medicine, and law) and is herself enmeshed in a wrenching marriage.After experiencing all sorts of human suffering (for instance hardship, ruthlessness, and the regimen of domesticity), the child of gods understands that people are to be pitied.
Just the Poet, who has actually developed the dream, seems unaffected by human suffering.
Lastly, she returns to Heaven and this minute represents the awakening from a dream-like sequence of events.August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a Swedish playwright, author, poet, author, and painter.
A prolific author who typically drew directly on his individual experience, Strindberg composed more than 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics throughout his career, which spanned 4 decades.A bold experimenter and critic throughout his life, he explored a vast array of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and historical plays to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist remarkable techniques.
From his earliest work, Strindberg established innovative kinds of dramatic action, language, and visual composition.He is considered the daddy of modern-day Swedish literature.
In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially novelist and playwright, but in other nations, he is understood mainly as a playwright.Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) is commonly considered among the best and most prominent film directors of all time.
His films have been referred to as profoundly individual meditations into the myriad struggles dealing with the mind and the soul.Among his most well-known works are The Seventh Seal (1957 ), Wild Strawberries (1957 ), Persona (1966 ), and Fanny and Alexander (1982 ), which were included in the 2012 edition of Sight & & Sounds Greatest Films of All Time.
He was also ranked No.
8 on the publications 2002 Greatest Directors of All Time list.SS/