“Les Liaisons Dangereuses” by Christopher Hampton currently playing at the Central Square Theater is based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, an army officer and aristocrat who saw action both on and off the battlefield in the heated days of the late 18th century, just before the French Revolution. A subtly deluxe staging and costume design puts one back in the day when love among the monied and titled French aristocracy was a blood sport, a hunt, a game of one-upmanship tempting to players of either gender. It’s an age-old sport, love, however phrased, and this production though so far back in history, so above most of us in rarified social station translates pretty well — sometimes. On the plus side the acting by the principle as well as the minor characters is always solid and sometimes heroic, violent emotions seizing not only pretty faces but the whole bodies of those … [Read more...] about Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Central Square Theater
