In brief, two ex-lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil ( Elyse Mirto) and Vicomte de Valmont ( Scott Ferrara), use sexual seductions to gain power and no small amount of fame among a certain set of Parisians. Scott Ferrara and Elyse Mirto in the Antaeus Theatre Company production of Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Les Liaison Dangereuses, now playing through December 10 at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale. Also, the showing of weapons in the first scene brings to mind an old theatrical maxim attributed to Anton Chekhov, “‘If in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act.” The audience will not be disappointed. Two of the principal males are seen at lights up sporting poniards strapped to their waists, which lets the audience know the time is not now.
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Hampton’s 1988 cinema adaptation, Dangerous Liaisons, garnered multiple Oscar nominations and three wins with a stellar cast that included John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman and others.Īntaeus Theatre Company’s production, which features its well-known double casts, eschews the luxury of a full blown costume drama with hideously expensive replicas of the finery of the ancient régime, going instead for high-style modern elegance that suggests the past quite effectively. According to novelist Andre Malraux, the characters created by Laclos were “without precedent.” Christopher Hampton’s theatrical adaptation was first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 1985, then on Broadway in 1987. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclo’s famous novel of the scandalous doings of a certain set of amoral French aristocrats published in 1782 ten years before the bloody French Revolution, brought in a new kind of character.
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