A new element in Look of Silence is the view it offers of those who knew murdered victims or who managed to escape death.
It takes some nerve for a playwright to adapt a fellow playwright’s work, especially since most reworkings come a cropper.
Certainly, taking Bergman’s minimal characters and haunting island setting from celluloid to three dimensions was not a ready-made feat.
This adaptation is striking for the way that it both softens the edges of and preserves the problematic acidity of August Strindberg’s play.