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Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Christopher Hampton

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Synopsis:

‘Christopher Hampton’s brilliant adaptation ... gives a pitiless and searching portrait of the erotic diversions of aristocrats in putrescent pre-revolutionary France.’ Daily Telegraph

‘Hampton’s achievement is to have preserved the satanic magnetism of the twin conspirators while going all out for social comedy. But this is comedy of the highest theatrical kind: edged with danger, replete with pain and forever reminding us that lives are being ruined with the flick of a well-turned phrase.’ Guardian

The scandalous reputation of Laclos’s novel, first published in 1782, is based on its chilling portrayal of the mannered decadence and sexual cynicism of the French aristocracy in the last years of the ancien regime.

Christopher Hampton has made a masterful adaptation for the stage of the conspiracy to corrupt a young girl barely out of her convent.

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Genres & Themes:

Ancien Regime; Aristocracy; Betrayal; Deception; Sex