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    612-822-4611

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Venus in Fur: A Play

Venus in Fur: A Play

Ives, David

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ISBN10: 0810128225
ISBN13: 9780810128224
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: Nov 30 2011
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

An unsettling drama, a playful comedy, and an exploration of gender roles and sexuality, Venus in Fur is a witty, dark look at the art of acting-onstage and off.

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.

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