The company exists to create a family of artists and audiences and is dedicated to exploring stories with enduring themes. The 1988 film adaptation (Dangerous Liaisons), scripted by Hampton, directed by Stephen Frears, and starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer, won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.Īntaeus is a cooperative theater ensemble founded to empower the actor and to bring classical theater to Southern California. It was revived on Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2008, and a 2016 Donmar Warehouse production transferred to Broadway where the limited engagement closed earlier this year. The production subsequently transferred to London, where it garnered both Olivier and Evening Standard Awards, and then to Broadway, where it received a Tony nomination and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. Two hundred years later, the Royal Shakespeare Company premiered Hampton’s stage adaption at Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos’ novel scandalized the world. Set in a world where the 1% holds all the cards, it couldn’t be more timely. Hampton initially wrote the play as a comment on the excesses of the 1980s - but it’s time to take another look. Merteuil incites Valmont to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and married Madame de Tourvel “About the moral rot of the social elite and the abuse of power, particularly how the powers-that-be treat women.”įormer lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont now compete in games of seduction and revenge. “It’s about people at the top being beyond right and wrong,” says Larsen. Set among the decadent ruling class of pre-revolutionary France, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a seductive and unsettling tale of sex, deceit, cruelty and the struggle for power in an all-too-recognizable world. 10 at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale. 27 (one opening for each cast), running through Dec. Directed by Robin Larsen, Les Liaisons Dangereuses opens on Oct. Antaeus Theatre Company presents a fully partner-cast production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton’s Olivier, Evening Standard and New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award-winning adaptation of the scandalous novel by Choderlos de Laclos. Les Liaisons Dangereuses Set among the decadent ruling class of pre-revolutionary France, this Olivier Award-winning play is a seductive and unsettling tale of sex and revenge in an all-too-recognizable world, where love is a blood sport played for glory and malice and men have all – almost all – the power.

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