“Love is something you use, not something you fall into like quicksand.” Such is the parable of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the stage adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s 1782 epistolary novel, in ...
Stiff-limbed, satin-skirted ladies and cummerbund-wearing gentlemen whirl about like automatons, or parts in a clock – while a mirror-lined stage makes their hues shine as brightly as gems in a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aidan Turner and Hannah van der Westhuysen in Les Liasons Dangerouses - SARAH M LEE How to stage Christopher Hampton’s glittering ...
While the novel focuses on the protagonists’ schemes, Christopher Hampton’s play examines the psychological impact of their torturous mind games By Zuzanna Lachendro In the early 1780s, on the ...
In a mirrored dance studio, overhung by an erotic frieze, evening-suited men lounge louchely, smoking cigarettes. Then the central doors swing open and a glittering, elegant figure in a red ballgown ...
Best. Entrance. Ever. Lesley Manville sweeps in a scarlet hooped dress onto the bare vastness of the Lyttelton stage through a door in a wall of mirrors, beneath a frieze of nudes and a giant, ribbed, ...
A queenly Lesley Manville steals the show in this dark, rageful tale of seduction as contact sport Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was serving as an artillery officer while writing his epistolary novel ...
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Dior’s cult book bags have taken a literary bent under the new creative director, Jonathan Anderson. Inspired by his “dream library,” each tote is emblazoned with a cover from a classic novel. Les ...
Early in the delectable 1988 tragedy “Dangerous Liaisons” Glenn Close’s Marquise de Merteuil delivers a monologue about how she came to be a master manipulator and destroyer of other people: “I had no ...
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has opened a writers room for Dangerous Liaisons, a contemporary take on the popular tale of manipulation and seduction, sources tell Deadline. The project comes from Mood creator ...