Philip Glass... is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery.
David Ives Libri
Questo contemporaneo drammaturgo americano è celebrato per le sue commedie in un atto, contraddistinte da destrezza verbale, inventiva teatrale e umorismo bizzarro. Le sue opere spesso esplorano le complessità delle relazioni umane e le assurdità della vita moderna con arguzia e leggerezza. Ha perfezionato la sua arte alla Yale School of Drama e le sue opere innovative e divertenti hanno ottenuto un ampio riconoscimento. Il suo approccio distintivo alla scrittura teatrale offre al pubblico un'esperienza teatrale rinfrescante e coinvolgente.
Venus in Fur
- 86pagine
- 4 ore di lettura
A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term “masochism” was coined); the novel is the story of an obsessive adulterous relationship between a man and the mistress to whom he becomes enslaved. At the end of a long day in which the actresses Thomas auditions fail to impress him, in walks Vanda, very late and seemingly clueless, but she convinces him to give her a chance. As they perform scenes from Thomas’s play, and Vanda the actor and Vanda the character gradually take control of the audition, the lines between writer, actor, director, and character begin to blur. Vanda is acting . . . or perhaps she sees in Thomas a masochist, one who desires fantasy in “real life” while writing fantasies for a living. An exploration of gender roles and sexuality, in which desire twists and turns in on itself, Venus in Fur is also a witty, unsettling look at the art of acting—onstage and off.
