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David Hare's new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's classic and notorious "La Ronde". With just two actors (Nicole Kidman and Ian Glenn at the Donmar Warehouse, London) playing all of the parts, he creates a fascinating landscape of dream and longing.
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Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as "completely unprintable," and indeed its premiere in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors playing a succession of characters whose sexual lives enmesh like a daisy chain. The Blue Room is a brilliant meditation on men and women, sex and social class, actors and the theater. With deft insight about the gap between the sexes, The Blue Room takes the treacherous Freudian subject of projection and desire and reinvents it in a bittersweet landscape that is both eternal and completely up-to-date.
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"[Hare's] play slides up on one insidiously-always suggesting more than they first suggest, planting depth charges in the mind, subtly laying a minefield in the self-confidence of one's first impressions."-New York Post
"A witty, contemporary reworking of Arthur Schnitzler's nineteenth-century shocker La Ronde."-The Mail on Sunday (four stars)
"In the jungle of this city, sex is a driving force, a commodity and a need. . . . This play could almost be a vividly illustrated Freudian textbook: the erotic drive in action, amoral and ruthless. Hare's version is, in the deepest and most essential sense, completely faithful to Schnitzler."-John Peter, The Sunday Times (London)
"Hare-buttressed by Freud and Proust-has turned sexual disappointment into something more interesting, the idea that what we are in love with is part illusion."-Kate Kellaway, The Observer
David Hare was born in Sussex in 1947. He is the author of seventeen plays, the best known of which-Plenty, The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, and The Judas Kiss-have all been presented on Broadway.
David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0571197884
- ISBN 13 9780571197880
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