Performance
穿毛皮的维纳斯
Venus in Fur Douban
David Ives
genre:
theater
other title:
Venus in Fur
director:
Walter Bobbie
/
Patrick Marber
actor:
Nina Arianda
/
Hugh Dancy
/
Natalie Dormer
/
David Oakes
The writer-director of a new play, an adaptation of the novel which inspired the term Masochism, is on the telephone lamenting the inadequacies of all the actresses who showed up that day to audition for the lead character. Suddenly, at the last minute, a new actress bursts in, the exemplar of every fault he has decried: needy, crude, compliant, desperate. Yet over the next 90 minutes, the balance of power shifts as the actress establishes total dominance over the director, exactly as in the novel.
