I saw Venus in Fur tonight tonight at the Cleveland Playhouse. It was absolutely amazing! The play has just two characters, and is about casting for a play, specifically, Venus in Fur, whose author is where we get the term masochism from. It was intellectual. You really had to think about the exchanges between the characters, which can be extremely quick.
You have a playwright (Thomas), who is adapting Venus in Fur, and extremely frustrated searching for a lead actress for his production. Enter Vanda, an actress who just happens to share the name of the character from the play. There is a lot of shifting of balance in the show, between male and female, fantasy and reality, and power and submission.
The play twists in and over itself so many times! You have to go see this! It's smart and sexy, with superb acting.
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