ABSTRACT

In EXILE BERGMAN, five individuals from around the world recount their experiences learning about Sweden from afar through the films of Ingmar Bergman. Once immigrated to the Scandinavian nation, however, each of these travelers realizes that the enthusiasm they have for the superstar Nordic director is not shared by their new neighbors. America Vera-Zavala’s play, which premiered at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm under her direction on August 31, 2018, explores a different kind of exile, where emigrants’ specific understandings of their new culture is not, in fact, largely shared by other members of that culture. Vira-Zavala’s work, crafted in collaboration with her subject-performers, shows Sweden as an globally imagined community, one contested by many of its citizens but no less real for that.

摘要

在 EXILE BERGMAN 中，来自世界各地的五个人讲述了他们通过英格玛·伯格曼的电影从远方了解瑞典的经历。然而，一旦移民到斯堪的纳维亚国家，这些旅行者中的每一个都意识到他们对这位超级明星北欧导演的热情并不是他们的新邻居所拥有的。美国维拉-扎瓦拉 (America Vera-Zavala) 的戏剧于 2018 年 8 月 31 日在她的指导下在斯德哥尔摩皇家剧院首演，探索了一种不同的流亡，在这种流放中，移民对他们的新文化的具体理解实际上在很大程度上没有被其他人所共享。该文化的成员。Vira-Zavala 的作品是与她的主题表演者合作制作的，将瑞典展示为一个全球想象的社区，一个受到许多公民质疑但同样真实的社区。