Venus in fur
Subtitle: a play
By: David Ives
Contributors: Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von, 1835-1895
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9780810128224
Subjects: Adaptations
Description: "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. At the end of a long day in which the actress Thomas auditions fail to impress him, in walks Vanda, very late and seemingly clueless, but she convinces him to give her a chance. As they perform scenes from Thomas's play, the lines between writer, actor, director, and character begin to blur."--P. [4] of cover.