This bibliography consists of annotated articles and studies dealing with Ingmar Bergman's playwriting and stagecraft in general, including radio and TV theatre. Interviews with Bergman concerning stage and media matters are annotated here rather than in the Interview Chapter, (VIII). However, reviews and articles dealing with a specific stage or media production are normally listed under that item's entry in Section 2 of Theatre Chapter (VI), or in Media Chapter (V) but are cross-listed here if they contain major assessments of Bergman's craft or address a concurrent theatre or media debate. Bergman's own play texts, play fragments (published and unpublished), play adaptations, and program notes are annotated in Chapter II (Ingmar Bergman, the Writer), but a selection of his program notes (usually of an early date) are cross-listed here.

Some press items in the bibliography, especially of an early date, list only author's signature. When identified, the full name appears in parenthesis.

See also Chapter IX, Writings on Ingmar Bergman, which is a bibliography dealing with his production at large.

1940

493. BERGMAN, INGMAR. ‘Teatraliskt i stan’ [Theatrics in town]. SFP, no. 2 (1940), p. 1.

For this and other presentations by Bergman on theatre items during his time at Mäster Olofsgården in Stockholm, see entry (➣ 2), in Chapter II. See also a brief interview titled ‘Energisk amatörteater i Gamla stan’, DN, 7 April 1940, p. 12A, in which Bergman complains about the lack of a proper stage but praises the enthusiasm of his group of young theatre amateurs.

1942

494. -LL. ‘SEX PJÄSER PÅ TVÅ MÅNADEr’ [Six plays in two months]. SvD, 28 September 1942, p.11.

A brief interview with 24-year old Ingmar Bergman who dates his first dramatic opus to 20 July 1942 when he completed ‘Kaspers död’ [Death of Punch] during an evening, a night, and a morning. Bergman mentions his assistantship at the Royal Opera where he ‘currently enjoys the inspiring privilege of working with Professor Dobrowen in the staging of Boris Godunov’. [åtnjuter det inspirerande privilegiet att arbeta med professor Dobrowen i uppsättningen av Boris G].

Most of the interview addresses Bergman's work at the Sago Theatre where he presented, during one year, 235 performances of seven different productions. Bergman points out that he has been both artistic and economic director of the Sago Theatre. See Theatre Chapter VI, (➣ 367-374).