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Genre. Drama. Venus in Fur is a two-person play by David Ives set in modern New York City. The play had its premiere off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company in 2010 and on Broadway in 2011.
David Ives’ mesmerizing play explores themes of submission, domination, and power with a fast-paced, mutable language he is known for. Reality and pretend become blurred lines in Venus in Fur, and the question of “who’s on top” always has a different answer.
Nov 9, 2011 · Venus in Fur. NYT Critic’s Pick. By Charles Isherwood. Nov. 8, 2011. Lightning flashes intermittently throughout “Venus in Fur,” the spooky sex comedy by David Ives that sizzled open on...
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by David Ives. 1M, 1W. Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur. Into his empty audition room walks a vulgar and equally desperate actress — oddly enough, named Vanda.
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Mar 3, 2024 · February 7-March 3, 2024. Sexy. Provocative. Hilarious. Hailed as “seriously smart and very funny” by The New York Times, Venus in Fur is a laugh-out-loud study of the politics of sex and power that’s guaranteed to charm and mesmerize.
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- February 7, 2024
Jun 17, 2021 · Internet Archive. Language. English. ix, 74 p. ; 23 cm. "In David Ives's seductive, darkly funny Venus in Fur, a playwright-director, Thomas, has written an adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's classic erotic novel Venus in Fur, the story of an obsessive relationship between a man and the mistress to whom he becomes enslaved.
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Jan 27, 2010 · For Thomas’s play is an adaptation of the 1870 novel “Venus in Fur” by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, about an idle aristocrat who draws the woman he is obsessed with into a sexual and emotional...
