

by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Michael Bull
The Arts Centre, Devizes Road
14, 15 & 16 October 1999
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OTTC perform
the period drama Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
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Christopher Hampton's brilliant adaptation gives
a pitiless and searching portrait of the erotic diversions of
aristocrats in pre-revolutionary France.
Hampton's achievement is to have preserved the satanic
magnetism of the twin conspirators while going all out for social
comedy.
This is a comedy of the highest theatrical kind;
edged with danger, forever reminding us that lives are being ruined
with the flick of a well-turned phrase.
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