After the Rehearsal at the Kofferfabrik: Bergman's chamber play meets Fürth

Event: After the Rehearsal in Kofferfabrik, Lange Str. 81, 90762 Fürth on 11. September 2026

Date and Time

11. September 2026 19:30

Artist

Location

Kofferfabrik
Lange Str. 81, 90762 Fürth, Germany

Price

15,00

About this Event

Theater

Mood

Other

Venue Type

Inside

Ingmar Bergman's chamber play in Fürth: Theater as a psychological state of exception

After the Rehearsal by Ingmar Bergman condenses theater into a fragile, electrifying encounter: After a rehearsal, the director Henrik Vogler remains alone in the room until the young actress Anna returns. From a seemingly factual conversation, an intense dialogue about art, power, desire, memory, and vulnerability grows. The material is regarded as a concentrated chamber play, in which Bergman makes the stage itself a resonance space for inner conflicts. ([arthaus.de](https://www.arthaus.de/nach_der_probe?utm_source=openai))

When the rehearsal room becomes a soul space

The tension lies in the emptiness: an abandoned room, a director, an actress, few words, but much more undercurrent. Bergman's perspective on theater is unrelenting and gentle at the same time; past and present, professional distance and private truth become inexorably intertwined. It is precisely in this that the play unfolds its theatrical power: not as a loud effect, but as a precisely crafted dramaturgy of pauses, glances, and mental turns. ([arthaus.de](https://www.arthaus.de/nach_der_probe?utm_source=openai))

Bergman's perspective behind the scenes

Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed the work as a cinematic theater conversation with clear psychological emphasis. Critical voices describe After the Rehearsal as a sensitive, surreal-charged chamber play and as a love letter to the stage, to directing, and to the art of acting itself. The intertwining of Anna's mother Rakel with Vogler's memories gives the evening additional depth and transforms it into a piece about artistic dependence and emotional abysses. ([arthaus.de](https://www.arthaus.de/nach_der_probe?utm_source=openai))

The suitcase factory as a lively theater atmosphere

In the suitcase factory in Fürth, this psychological chamber play meets a place with its own cultural history. The venue presents itself as a house for concerts, theater, gallery, and gastronomy; at the same time, the house itself points out that it is not barrier-free and asks guests with walking aids or wheelchairs to contact them in advance. This creates an intimate theater atmosphere for the evening that particularly suits Bergman's material. ([kofferfabrik.cc](https://www.kofferfabrik.cc/))

What the audience can expect

Visitors experience a concentrated play about power and dependence, about memory and self-assertion, about the price of artistic proximity. The performance is aimed at all who appreciate psychologically fine theater, strong acting, and a dense production. Those who engage with this evening will not encounter a loud spectacle but a precise soul drama that resonates long after. Bergman's text demands attention and rewards it with intense presence. ([arthaus.de](https://www.arthaus.de/nach_der_probe?utm_source=openai))

Conclusion: After the Rehearsal promises an evening full of quiet tremors, clever dialogues, and great theatrical art in Fürth. Anyone who loves psychologically dense stage craftsmanship should experience this performance live. ([arthaus.de](https://www.arthaus.de/nach_der_probe?utm_source=openai))

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