La Ronde
From: Tuesday, 23rd August 2011
To: Sunday, 4 September 2011
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Synopsis
A game of sexual pursuit. When originally staged (1924) it became the subject of an obscenity trial. Ten characters meet casually, make love - and move on. The prostitute and the soldier...the soldier and the chambermaid...the chambermaid and the young man...round and round in the circle game...
Our Review:
31 August 2011
Schnitzler’s infamous play about love and sex in 1900s Vienna, which began life as a privately published text and banned as a pornographic piece of theatre in 1920, is here reworked to give it a more universal and broader perspective which allows us to examine the ideas and relationships presented without its time lock.
The Harbinger Company, under the directorship of Joel Cottrell, have updated it to an England of the 1950s, where class structures are still very much in evidence and within living memory, if not directly through past experience then through our culture.
It's an atmospheric and amusingly wry look at a past that was, and still is, in our psyche, as we watch somewhat voyeuristically each of the characters in this play move from partner to partner until the circle is complete. The live jazz score, by Rich Daniels, using the words of Baudelaire’s love poetry, provides a unity and commentary on each of the partnerships allowing the scenes to flo...
Creative
Arthur Schnitzler (Author)
Lukas Raphael (Translation)
Harbinger Company London (Company)
Joel Cottrell (Director)
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