In 1978, the great Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman brought together two great actresses: Liv Ullmann, who starred in many of his films, and Ingrid Bergman, who would work under his direction for the first and only time. The result of their collaboration was an extraordinary film called ‘Autumn Sonata’ (Höstsonaten).

The story, an original creation of the director, revolves around the reunion after seven years of a mother, a brilliant pianist with an impressive international career, and her daughter, married to a Protestant minister, resident in a rural area and who is taking care of her mentally challenged sister. The viewer is soon drawn into the confrontation between both women. The mother’s harsh and indifferent character clashes with the clumsy goodness and the affective needs of her daughter.

The great theatre director José Carlos Plaza, whose career is marked by works endowed with intelligence and sensibility, is responsible for the staging of this theatre adaptation of Autumn Sonata. The great Spanish actress Marisa Paredes, whose collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar has made her an international celebrity and whom we had the privilege of seeing recently in the role of Hamlet’s mother in an Arriaga Theatre production, leads the superb cast of this play.