It was during this time that physical pleasure itself, along with deception and manipulation, became a Despite her masterful scheming, however, Merteuil is not really in control.

This was the first time in history that ballet was performed at the Festival. Some of the chairs, for example, are shabby, failing to properly suggest opulence or the conspicuous consumption of the upper-crust characters. Like the other characters, the dupes, the audience submits to his seductions.In one of the funnier, more risqué scenes, filled with double entendres and fleshly punctuation, Valmont pens a love letter to Tourvel As for the play’s dupes, Lydia Mackay brings a lightness to Madame de Tourvel’s tortured soul. The hugely successful Royal Shakespeare Company production (which transferred from London to Broadway) kept the novel’s original French title but, on the assumption that foreign movies are box office poison in the US, the film uses a woodenly literal translation.The country estate of Valmont’s aunt, of Mme de Rosemonde (More of the film’s gorgeous interiors were filmed in The burned-out Valmont half-heartedly fights a fateful duel with Chevalier Danceny (Dangerous Liaisons filming location: Chateau Champs-Sur-Marne, France | Dangerous Liaisons filming location: Chateau de Vincennes, Vincennes, France |
A co-production between Queensland Ballet and Texas Ballet Theater. The liberal philosophy of Laclos and the ambiguous moral tone of the novel reflect the mood of France at the dawn of the revolution. Choreographer Liam Scarlett Composer Camille Saint-Saëns

With a story that has captivated audiences around the world for over 200 years, Dangerous Liaisons is a hedonistic tale of love, virtue and humanity, reimagined into a dramatic new ballet for mature audiences. He is the phantom ex-lover upon whom Merteuil intends to exact revenge by corrupting Cécile, his betrothed.Equally well cast is Brandon Potter as the Vicomte de Valmont. Along with the Enlightenment, a concurrent social movement that valued reason above all else, libertinism abandoned traditional Christian values and social mores. Samantha Behen convincingly plays the fresh-from-the-convent Cécile, who takes to her lessons in libertinism like a duck to water.

Please complete some of the basic information below to sign up for our weekly newsletter. To find out more visit their website. 4 of 4 people found this review helpful. Directed by Tony Grech-Smith. America in the mid-1980s. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? In 1985 based on the novel, Christopher Hampton wrote a play “Dangerous Links”, which became the literary basis for this performance.It is a story of passion, manipulation, hypocrisy, and devastating relationships of true love, a story about moral decline and fornication. Dangerous Liaisons is running until 19th October at the Bridewell Theatre. If you experience any difficulties with this site, please contact

Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel. Dangerous Liaisons.

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This search will not search through the calendar.By Christopher Hampton | Adapted from the novel by Pierre Choderlos Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel. Cast & Crew Cast.

Very little, it seems, has changed since the time of In an essay that typically prefaces the French novel, French writer (and Minister of Cultural Affairs under Charles de Gaulle in the 1950s and ’60s) André Malraux describes the marquise and vicomte as characters heretofore unprecedented in European literature. Rinktis bilietus .

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They both believably navigate the difficult dual roles of pawns who also orchestrate their own network of letters and intrigue.Director Greene has clearly put together a great cast and crew. From October 1986 to September 1990 the production played at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, with many changes of cast.

Transitions between scenes, when actors and stagehands reset the stage, are smooth. Les Liaisons Dangereuses.