Les Liaisons Dangereuses

In a brief respite from sex, movies and music you lot get a theatre review today!

The Tuesday night wenches and I headed to the Christopher Hampton play on which the movie Dangerous liaisons was based. Firstly the wenches: one of them spanked the tuatara and stated her aim as 'get my tits signed' by the reason we were all going, let's call her 'Rowdy', and the other was nice, quiet and interesting, lets call her 'Lovely'. So after some booze we headed to the Gryphon Theatre to see the object of our desires. This did involve negotiating Ghuznee Street's recent two-way change, an adventure in itself.

I enjoyed the play, very funny, witty and interesting. Storyline goes something like: French court with two main people (de Merteuil and de Valmont) trying to corrupt innocents into sordid sex games to amuse themselves. Much shagging (sadly implied), seduction and extra-marital affairs (in ecology we call these extra-pair copulations) all requiring evidence of the written letter kind (well it was before digital cameras and mastercard 'priceless' emails). Heh heh yup the blogs back to where it usually sits! Sordidness! The two leads were excellent, and de Merteuil was nice to look at (no huge surprise there really, brunette with curves...of course i liked her!) and was very convincing as a conniving manipulative bitch. As an aside one of the reasons I liked this play was the strength of the characters, explaining why I prefer Iago to other Shakespearean characters. I dont reckon Iago is bad either, as when surrounded by inept wimpering idiots, it seems so right to manipulate them. And so it was in this play. The simpering idiots, de Tourvel and Danceny, were nicely corrupted. Although I thought Danceny was pretty weak and appeared to be over-acting, it seemed like that character needed to be quieter and vacuous - whcih didn't come across.

Costumes were great, and the serving wench Julie looked hot in her outfits ;-) The play didn't drag, which given its 2 hour playing time, was a risk. And I managed to follow all of the characters motives and plots so yeah great stuff. And did I mention witty? very funny stuff.

Stage was nice and simple which meant few distractions from the delivery of the story. Again helping us follow what was a nicely complicated plot. Other actors: the courtesan was also hot and sadly we (and by we, I mean I) didn't see enough of her. Nice use of card games throughout the play signifying, I guess, the way all the characters were being played off by each other. Nice ambiguity in the plot as to whether de Merteuil herself was being played as well.

So all in all, a very enjoyable production with hot babes to look at if you get bored with the plot! It's on until Saturday and worth seeing ($15 unwaged, $18 waged).

Rowdy tried to convince the object of our interest that it was I who wanted their chest signed. No-one believed her. It appears her reputation does precede her.

Love, B. xxx