Dangerous Liaisons and the #MeToo Wars

Dangerous Liaisons and the #MeToo Wars

On 6 June, a play that has been decried as too “toxic” and “problematic” for the age of #MeToo ended an acclaimed, sold-out run at London’s National Theatre. A filmed version of the production also began screening in cinemas across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and other countries from 25 June. The play is Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the (now-updated) 1985 adaptation of Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos’…

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Writer: Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Director: Marianne Elliott Memorably, Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of the eighteenth-century novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, was first staged by the RSC some 40 years ago. It featured astonishing central performances by Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman as Madame de Merteuil and the Vicomte de [...] The post National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses appeared f…