Persona

When the outside world and her roles within it become too much to bear, actress Elizabeth Harker ceases to speak and move. Declared physically and mentally sound, she is sent to her doctor’s seaside cottage where she is looked after by Alma. A close and complex relationship develops between the two women which crosses the bounds of sanity, identity and reality.

This work-in-progress adaption from Anam Productions explores transposing the famously disintegrative form of Ingmar Bergman’s radical, minimalist classic from the cinema to theatre and pursues its urgent question of whether it is possible to cease to be without ceasing to live.

Adapted by Sarah O’Toole from Ingmar Bergman’s 1965 screenplay

Starring Eilish McCarthy and Ana Mahe

Design by Elaine Mears