Friday and Saturday, April 16 and 17, 8 PM
Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
916 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Information and reservations:
202-315-1305
$25 General Admission, $15 Seniors/Students
Warnings for adult content and nudity.
Seduction. Betrayal. Manipulation. More seduction. And all before lunch. A darkly satiric take on the lifestyles of the rich and idle, popularized by the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses follows a game of seduction and manipulation between the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, a pair of jaded and rather delightfully wicked aristocrats. Valmont is determined to seduce the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel, while her husband is presiding over an "endless court case in Burgundy." At the same time, Merteuil is determined to corrupt the young Cécile de Volanges, whose mother has only recently brought her out of a convent to be married to a former lover of Merteuil's. Merteuil and Valmont contrive a love affair between Cécile and the feckless Chevalier Danceny, and can't resist joining in the game themselves, with Valmont seducing Cécile, and Merteuil, Danceny.
And then it gets complicated.
The success, the popularity and the sheer fun of the Greenbelt Arts Center's recent production of Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses made the original cast want to pick up and do the show again. They missed out on their closing night thanks to Snowpocalypse. So they're taking it to Washington DC, to Flashpoint's gorgeous Mead Theatre Lab, for a limited engagement run, with the help and good advice of the Greenbelt Arts Center, and under the auspices of the Rude Mechanicals.
The cast features a lot of old hands and familiar faces in the close-knit world of DC theater: Joshua Engel as the Vicomte de Valmont, Jaki Demarest as the Marquise de Merteuil, Morrigan Condo as Madame de Tourvel, Patrick Mullen as the Chevalier Danceny, Amitiyah Hyman as Madame de Rosemonde, and Melissa Robinson as Madame de Volanges, with Shannon Riley as Cecile de Volanges, Alex Keiper as Emilie, and Alan Duda as Azolan. So join us in Washington this spring, for cherry blossoms and a wickedly good time.