An exuberant ‘Fanny and Alexander’ brings Bergman’s Ekdahls to the Kennedy Center

The turntable on which Sweden’s Royal Dramatic Theatre places its stage version of “Fanny and Alexander” is an apt visual clue to director Stefan Larsson’s elegant production — a beguiling spin through the Dickensian family saga Ingmar Bergman brought to the screen 30 years ago. As music plays, the set pieces go around and around, as if the Ekdahls lived on a carousel of lightening and darkening moods. We catch glimpses of characters in celebration, in lonely ter...