Les Liaisons Dangereuses Takes The Stage At UArts Brind School 11/3-6

Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses (The Dangerous Liaisons), a chilling portrayal of the mannered decadence and sexual cynicism of the French aristocracy in the last years of the ancien regime, will be presented by the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts as part of their 2011-12 season of plays and musicals November 3 to 6 at the Caplan Studio Theater.

Rich, bored aristocrats play a high-stakes games of passion and betrayal in this pitiless and searching portrait of putrescent pre-revolutionary France. This tale of intrigue, seduction, humiliation, and revenge won three Oscars when the play was adapted for the screen as "Dangerous Liaisons" in 1988. The Guardian praised the script as "comedy of the highest theatrical kind: edged with danger, replete with pain and forever reminding us that lives are being ruined with the flick of a well-turned phrase."

Amy Dugas Brown, a member of the Brind School faculty who served for ten years as Associate Director for the Arden Theatre, directs Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The production features thrillingly decadent rococo costume designs by Maggie Baker, Assistant Professor of Costume Design in the Brind School; with over a decade of work in film, theatre, and dance, Maggie's work is well known to Philadelphia audiences and is also currently featured in Lantern Theater Company's production of New Jerusalem.

The cast of ten is made up of students in the Brind School's BFA conservatory programs in Acting and Musical Theater, with the leading roles of Vicomte de Valmont and Marquis de Merteuil being performed by seniors Will Thompson and Amanda Kearns respectively. Brind School students provide scenic design, lighting design, dramaturgy and stage management.
SCHEDULE & TICKETS

Tickets for Les Liaisons Dangereuses can be reserved at tickets.uarts.edu. Further information is available by phone at 215-717-6499.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

By Christopher Hampton, from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos
Directed by Amy Dugas Brown

At Caplan Studio Theater, University of the Arts

211 South Broad Street, 16th Floor
Thu., Nov. 3 at 8 p.m.
Fri., Nov. 4 at 8 p.m.
Sat., Nov. 5 at 2 p.m.
Sat., Nov. 5 at 8 p.m.
Sun., Nov. 6 at 2 p.m.
Thu., Nov. 6 at 7 p.m.

The Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts has been providing conservatory training to aspiring theater professionals for over 25 years. Its alumni can be found on Broadway, leading regional theaters, film and television.

About The University of the Arts
The University of the Arts (uarts.edu) is the nation's first and only university dedicated to the visual, performing and communication arts. Its 2,400 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs on its campus in the heart of Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts. The institution's roots as a leader in educating creative individuals date back to 1868.

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