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Sex, Cruelty and Theater in 'Liaisons'
Christopher Hampton's "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is a total anomaly in modern dramatic literature. Based on the 18th-century French novel of the same title, it is a dark comedy-cum-erotic thriller that observes two pre-Revolutionary aristocrats who use sex as weapon in a vicious game of humiliating and destroying their friends and enemies. This involves seducing a 15-year-old virgin in one scene...
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