Venus in fur : a play
/ David Ives
- Evanston, Il. : Northwestern University Press , 2011
- 74 p. ; 23 cm.
In David Ives's seductive, darkly funny Venus in Fur, a playwright-director, Thomas, has written an adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's classic erotic novel Venus in Fur, the story of an obsessive relationship between a man and the mistress to whom he becomes enslaved. At the end of a long day in which the actress 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, the lines between writer, actor, director, and character begin to blur.
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Sacher-Mosach, Leopold , Ritter Von , 1835 - 1895 ----Adaptations