Les liaisons dangereuses is a play by Christopher Hampton adapted from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation all the while enjoying their cruel games. Their targets are the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel and Cécile de Volanges a young girl who has fallen in love with her music tutor the Chevalier Danceny.
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author
Christopher Hampton
IBDB ID
5339
premiere date
1985-09-24
premiere place
Stratford-upon-Avon, The Other Place (theatre)
premiere year
1985-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
Various salons and boudoirs in hotels and châteaux in and around Paris and the Bois de Vincennes during an autumn and winter in the late 1780s
