Quartet
February 3, 2005 – February 27, 2005
Performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art
by Heiner Müller
Edited and Translated by Carl Weber
directed by JoAnne Akalaitis
Through ritualistic games, two characters intermittently switch their roles donning a variety of sexual guises, exposing the ultimate emptiness of lives given over to sexual conquest, void of love and passion. Based on Choderlos de Laclos's novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, this adaptation of the fictional correspondence between the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont brings a startling new dimension to this famous story of lust, scheming and seduction. A terrifying and grotesque view of human fate brought to the stage by one of the country's leading directors.
