Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre
Heart-stopping scenes and delectable period costumes lift this exploration of sexual appetite, but the titillation and characterisation are over the top
Oral sex on stage? In a ballet? Never! And yet that is exactly what happens in the world premiere of Dangerous Liaisons where, in an orgy scene of writhing dancers, a man goes down – lustily and with enthusiasm – on his female counterpart.
Promotions warn: “Not recommended for children.” Indeed, the program’s coy plot summary does not do Dangerous Liaisons justice. In the opening scene of the co-production between Texas Ballet Theatre and Queensland Ballet, held at the funeral of the Marquise de Merteuil’s husband, she is, we are told, “comforted” by the Comte de Gercourt. For most that might mean he passed her a hanky. Here it’s sex on top of the coffin.
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