THE BLUE ROOM - A Play in Ten Intimate Acts by David Hare
The Blue Room is based on Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen - a series of sketches Max Ophilus made into the famous film La Ronde in 1950. Award-winning British playwright David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors playing a succession of characters whose lives enmesh and entwine. The Blue Room is a brilliant meditation on men and women, society and social class, actors and the theatre. With deft insight into the gap between the sexes, The Blue Room takes the treacherous subjects of relationships between men and women and reinvents it in a bittersweet landscape that is both eternal and completely up-to-date.
FOR ADULTS ONLY.
What the critics have said about the play:
| A witty, contemporary reworking of Arthur Schnitzler's nineteenth-century "La Ronde" |
| -The Mail On Sunday |
| Hare - buttressed by Freud and Proust - has turned betrayal and pain into something more interesting, the idea that what we are in love with is part illusion. |
| -The Observer |
| Hare's version is, in the deepest and most essential sense, completely faithful to Schnitzler - a vividly illustrated Freudian textbook. |
| -The Sunday Times |
*Produced with special license from Samuel French, Inc.
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JAMIE WILSON |
The Cab Driver |
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The Student |
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The Politician |
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The Playwright |
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The Aristocrat |
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JENNY JAMORA |
The Girl |
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The Au Pair |
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The Married Woman |
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The Model |
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The Actress |
| Executive Producer: |
Rossana Abueva |
| Artistic Director: |
Monique Wilson |
| Direction: |
Rabbi Gannaban |
| Lights Design: |
Martin Esteva |
| Production Design: |
Tuxqs Rutaquio |
| Technical Direction: |
Jamie Wilson |
| Venue: |
REPUBLIC OF MALATE THEATRE 1769 A. Mabini Malate, Manila |
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| Dates: |
February 25, 26, March 4 and 5, 2005: 9pm February 26 and March 5, 2005: 4pm |
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