Blue Room: Freely Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde - Softcover

Hare, David; Schnitzler, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080213596X ISBN 13: 9780802135964

Publisher: Grove Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description

The Blue Room is renowned playwright David Hare's re-setting of Reigen, Arthur Schnitzler's 'unprintable' series of sexual sketches.

About the Author

David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080213596X
• ISBN 13: 9780802135964
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 85