Dangerous Liaisons
Fireside Theatre
Poster design for dangerous liaisons, Fireside Theatre’s new adaptation of the 1985 play by Christopher Hampton.
The Marquise de Merteiul is a woman scorned.
Enlisting the help of the womaniser Valmont, she sets to take revenge on former lover by corrupting his intended bride, the innocent Cécile.
But Valmont has ideas of his own. His eyes are set on prim and proper Madame de Tourvel – to him, the ultimate challenge. And soon the web of sex, lies and intrigue grows more tangled than anyone could have imagined…
Fireside Theatre presents an unconventional staging of the classic story. Two and a half centuries later, this new take has all the hilarity and scandal of the original, but takes a fresh look at its gender politics. An all-female cast performs this timely reimagining of the novel that shocked the world.
Performers - Gaia Mondadori, Eleanor Greaves, Lydia Makrides, Georgina Deri, Isobel Maxwell & Sophie Stemmons
Director - Maddy Trépanier
Producer - Ben Kybett
Clockwise: final poster; text and background treatments
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloth Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats, 1899