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Author Hare, David, 1947-

Title The blue room : freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's La ronde / by David Hare.

Imprint New York : Grove Press, ©1998.

Location Call No. Status
 Merrill-Cazier Theatre Arts Script Library (Lower Level)  PR 6058 .A678 B58 1998  Nearby on shelf  Available
Edition 1st American ed.
Description 85 pages ; 21 cm
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Series Utah State University Theatre Arts Script LIbrary
Summary Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as "completely unprintable," and indeed its premiere in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors playing a succession of characters whose sexual lives enmesh like a daisy chain. The Blue Room is a meditation on men and women, sex and social class, actors and the theater. With deft insight about the gap between the sexes, The Blue Room takes the treacherous Freudian subject of projection and desire and reinvents it in a bittersweet landscape that is both eternal and completely up-to-date.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Genre/Form Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Added Author Schnitzler, Arthur, 1862-1931. Reigen.
ISBN 080213596X
9780802135964
073940301X
9780739403013