Dangerous Liaisons

Drama of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor

Running time 2 hours and 15 minutes. One interval.
Première: 10 March 2012, Stara dvorana, Drama of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor

The title of the original: Les Liaisons dangereuses

Director Aleksandar Popovski
Translator Luka Novak
Translator of letters Radojka Vrančič
Adaptation Creators of the performance
Dramaturg Jelena Mijović
Set designers Numen, Ivana Radenović
Costume designer Angelina Atlagić
Seamstress Snežana Pešić Rajić
Composer Kiril Džajkovski
Choreographer Valentina Turcu
Lighting designers Aleksandar Popovski, Sven Jonke
Language consultant Janez Bostič
Make-up designer Mirjana Djordjević

Cast
Marquise de Merteuil Nataša Matjašec Rošker
Madame de Volanges Ksenija Mišič
Cécile de Volanges Barbara Ribnikar (as guest)
Vicomte de Valmont Branko Jordan
Madame de Rosemonde Milada Kalezić
Madame de Tourvel Eva Kraš
Émilie, Courtesan Maša Žilavec
Chevalier Danceny Matevž Biber

No one speaks of love these days. There are debates on sex, ageing, aesthetic surgery, money, artificial insemination, depression, and dandruff. But not about love. In fact, love is considered a second-rate sense. Still, it is not necessarily pathetic or corny since it appears in Dangerous Liaisons as the only corrective of hypocrisy and intrigues, of the will to power and domination, of beauty as merely a cruel and dark weapon in the battle of all against all.
A military officer from Amiens, Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803) has disclosed the cynicism, hypocrisy, and cold-bloodedness of aristocratic society in his psychologically precise, fascinating, and eternally relevant literary masterpiece Dangerous Liaisons. In 1985 the English playwright Christopher Hampton made an outstanding stage adaptation of the novel, which is the basis for the Maribor production.