I think every time I come back to this play, I come back with a more mature understanding of why people behave as they behave. Janet McTeer as La Marquise de Merteuil and Liev Schreiber as Le Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Broadway's Booth Theatre.īetween that original university production and this one, what's changed the most? Then when I started at the Donmar, we went back to him and he graciously allowed us the rights to do it and it was a success, and Arielle Tepper Madover, who's our First Look Producer at the Donmar, decided she wanted to bring it to Broadway. And when I took over there as artistic director, I very gauchely asked him if he'd ever be prepared to let me direct it one day. Of course there's this huge role in Valmont, but there are also these amazing female characters around him.Ĭhristopher Hampton was on the board at the Bush Theatre. That's one of the amazing things about it. I also I think was drawn to the great range of roles for women. I think I was probably more a Cécile than any other character in the play. I was totally fascinated by it, I think honestly, out of a sort of naivety and sexual curiosity. What originally drew you to Les Liaisons Dangereuses? Josie Rourke, Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse, helms Broadway's Les Liaisons Dangereuses. "I've had an extraordinary time working with all of them," she says, "and to bring Liev and Janet, who are these two titans, together.that's been hugely exciting for me." Rourke remembers her time in the rehearsal room with the cast as "the most enormous fun." The show follows that lascivious pair as they corrupt and humiliate recent convent graduate Cécile Volanges, virtuous and happy wife Madame de Tourvel, and young romantic Le Chevalier Danceny. Schreiber takes on the role of notorious rake Le Vicomte de Valmont, while McTeer (the only cast member reprising a role from the Donmar) plays the manipulative widow La Marquise de Merteuil. One of the highlights this time around, the director reports, is working with an all-star ensemble led by Tony winners Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer. Her second mounting was the 2015 London production on which this Broadway version is based, and her first - "Well, the first time doesn't really count," she laughs.
The recent Broadway opening of the Donmar Warehouse's Les Liaisons Dangereuses marked the third time Donmar artistic director Josie Rourke has helmed the play.
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