by HEINER MÜLLER
direction, scenography and lights by ROBERT WILSON
original musical score : MICHAEL GALASSO
French translation : Jean Jourdheuil and Béatrice Perregaux
costumes : Frida Parmeggiani
collaboration on direction : Ann-Christin Rommen
collaboration on scenography : Stephanie Engeln
lightings : AJ Weissbard
make up and hairdressing : Luc Verschueren
with ISABELLE HUPPERT, ARIEL GARCIA VALDES
and Rachel Eberhart, Philippe Lehembre, Benoît Maréchal
Production : Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, La Comédie de Genève, Théâtre du Gymnase/Marseille, in co - realisation with the Festival d'Automne à Paris.
length : about 1 hour 40 minutes without interval
Cast
By condensing "Dangerous Liaisons" to twenty pages of dialogue, Heiner Müller created one of the most hard-hitting plays of the end of the 20th century. Taking this extraordinary episode of "The War Between the Sexes" - an amorous duel, a battle of big cats, a verbal joust and a game of masks with unequalled irony and cruelty - Robert Wilson several years ago created a version with stripped-down elegance, in which silence further intensified the text's brilliance.
Back again today, it creates a new sensation by featuring Ariel Garcia Valdès as Valmont dueling with Isabelle Huppert in the role of the Marquise de Merteuil.
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