About the author:
Behind David Ives’ mild-mannered exterior is a dramatist who loves to take on seemingly impossible challenges. Since penning the 1993 smash-hit collection of one-act comedies All in the Timing, Ives has tackled history (the acclaimed drama New Jerusalem), channeled Mark Twain (the hilarious Broadway romp Is He Dead?) and given fresh life to Moliere (The School for Lies), with a stage adaptation of White Christmas thrown in. Now one of Ives’ most unusual plays, Venus in Fur, is headed to Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, in a production starring Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy. Below, Ives explains how he took an 1870 novel that spawned the term “sado-masochism” and turned it into a sexy comedy set to open on Broadway on November 8.
My play Venus in Fur began with a very powerful, very bad idea.
A few years ago I re-read Histoire d’O, the notorious erotic French novel of the 1950s. Story of O (as it’s known in English) is the tale of a woman identified only as “O” who from the very first page accedes to her lover’s demands for various kinds of sexual submission. O masochistically submits for ...
Source: http://www.broadway.com/shows/venus-fur/buzz/158278/playwright-david-ives-on-how-venus-got-her-fur/
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