‘Scenes from a Marriage’ captures your head, not your heart

In terms of sheer inventiveness, Scenes From a Marriage may be the season’s most daring show. No wonder Ivo van Hove and Emily Mann’s eye-popping tour de force is building buzz. Working from Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 TV miniseries about the dissolution of a couple — an academic named Johan and a lawyer named Marianne — director Van Hove and adapter Mann use three different couples of varying ages to tell their story. This grand concept required New York Theatre Workshop to divide its main space into three smaller, distinct ones, with the audience divided accordingly.