Fanny & Alexander tickets

‘There should be no shame in us taking pleasure in our little lives.’

Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece Fanny & Alexander is translated to the stage by BAFTA award-winning writer Stephen Beresford and Old Vic Associate Director Max Webster.

Amongst the gilded romance and glamour of 1900s Sweden, siblings Fanny and Alexander’s world is turned upside down when their widowed mother remarries the iron-willed local bishop. As creative freedom and rigid orthodoxy clash, a war ensues between imagination and austerity in this magical study of childhood, family and love.

★★★★ ‘Penelope Wilton enchants’ - Evening Standard

★★★★ ‘Stephen Beresford’s stage adaptation sheds new light on Bergman’s screen masterpiece’ - Financial Times

★★★★ ‘This is a feast of a show’ - The Independent

★★★★ ‘a…sumptuous feast’ - The Metro

★★★★ ‘Wilton is wonderfully funny’- The Observer

★★★★ ‘richly colourful and assured recreation, and a brave, unquestionable triumph for The Old Vic.’ - The Sunday Times

★★★★ ‘it’s possessed of a surging emotional swoop and visual audacity that bursts its way into your heart.’ - Time Out

★★★★ ‘It's impressive stuff and it's bolstered by exceptional performances’ - WhatsOnStage