National Theatre Live at OKCMOA:
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (in English)

• A thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare. Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs a striking staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated play, starring Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) and Aidan Turner (Rivals), filmed live on stage at the National Theatre.

• “Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was serving as an artillery officer while writing his epistolary novel about a cold game of seduction in the salons of 18th-century France which backfires on its conniving architects. It shows: love is a fight for power and control in his story, every bit as strategic as a military campaign. Popularly known through the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons, starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich (and also the teen version of it, 1999’s Cruel Intentions), this production is directed by Marianne Elliott and uses an adaptation by Christopher Hampton – whose play of the novel, first staged in 1985, was also the basis for the film starring Close.

• In English (180 minutes)