![]() ![]() This season, "Les Liaisons" is on Broadway again, in a new production with Laura Linney, Ben Daniels, Jessica Collins and Mamie Gummer. Playwright Christopher Hampton adapted the novel for the stage in 1987, and the following year, turned it into a film with Glenn Close and John Malkovich as the sexual predators, and Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman as their prey. The story tragically illustrates what happens when promiscuous people are beset by boredom, women have no control over their lives, and the ruling class has too much power. If it were a musical, "What's Love Got to Do With It?" could well be the overture for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," an intriguingly nasty play about the idle rich of the 18th century, who, as today's kids might say, need to get a life.īased on Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 epistolary novel of the same name, the play uses pre-meditated sexual gamesmanship as a daily ritual to take a thinly veiled swipe at the French aristocracy. A Review by Barbara Mehlman and Geri Manus. ![]()
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