The show won the 1987 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. Duncan won the Theatre World Award and Davies won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Christopher Hampton was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, but lost both to August Wilson for Fences. Following eight previews, it opened at the Music Box Theatre on Apand ran for 149 performances. Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman reprised their roles for the Broadway production, also directed by Howard Davies. Ī recording of The Pit production can be listened to on premises, at the British Library. In October 1986, with only a few cast changes, the production transferred again to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End. Christopher Hampton won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, and Lindsay Duncan received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. On 8 January 1986, the production transferred to The Pit, an intimate studio theatre in the Barbican Centre in London, with its original cast intact.
Directed by Howard Davies, the cast included Lindsay Duncan as the Marquise de Merteuil, Alan Rickman as the Vicomte de Valmont, Juliet Stevenson as Madame de Tourvel, Lesley Manville as Cécile de Volanges, and Sean Baker as the Chevalier Danceny. Staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the play opened at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon on 24 September 1985.
In order to gain their trust, Merteuil and Valmont pretend to help the secret lovers so they can use them later in their own treacherous schemes. 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. 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. Les Liaisons dangereuses ( French: ) is a 1985 play by Christopher Hampton adapted from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. 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 Poster for the 2008 Roundabout Theatre Company productionĪ tale of seduction, revenge, and human malice
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