Online Excerpt
Quartet for Dangerous Liaison
- Artistic
- Playwright：Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung)
- Original Author/ Work：
- Director：Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung)
- Performers
- Scenic & Set Designer：Chiang, Wei-hua
- Lighting Designer：
- Music Designer：Liu, Ji-ling
- Costume Designer：Jiang, Wen-ci
- Stage Manager
Title
mainTitle:
Quartet for Dangerous Liaison
subTitle:
TranslatedTitle:
危險關係四重奏
Subject
subjectMatter:
modern drama
genre:
performance record
keywords:
Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung)／modern drama
Description
abstractSynopsis:
This play, based on the French Novel, Les Liaison Dangereuses, tells stories of desire of four characters acted by two actors with a live heavy metal band playing on. The first section started with the scene of Marquise de Merteuil's masturbation. Playing the role, Chen Chi-wei's various body movements and voices attracted the audience's attention. This classical novel has been adapted into movies for several times. The most well-known version is the one nominated by the Academy Award starring John Malcovich, Glenn Close, and Michelle Pfeiffer. The story tells how the beautiful but calculating Marquise de Merteuil manipulated Vicomte de Valmont to seduce her ex-lover's fiance, while at the same time Valmont was planning to conquer the virtuous Madame de Tourvel. With the deaths of Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte, it ended as a tragedy. Quartet for Dangerous Liaison is German Avant-Garde playwright Heiner Muller's adapted version. It appropriates the feeling of terror of the novel and makes it its own by bringing up the issue of gender performance and political conspiracy. The use of a live band is another innovation worth mentioning. This play was banned by former East German government for its explicit "pornography¨. Hung Hung's version is an ambitious endeavor.
Subtitles
interTitles:
dialogNarrationTitle:
no
conditions:
good
acquireMethod:
provided by Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung) ¡qHung Hung
edition:
restorationRecord:
notes:
language:
mandarin
edition2:
publisher:
Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung)
distributor:
Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung)
production:
Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung)
Date
year:
1999
date of performance:
1999.01.
date of debut:
date of recording:
Location
place of debut:
Theatre of Data
place of performance:
Theatre of Data
Identifier
localNNumber
localFileName:
Theatre of Data
metadataID:
oringinalNumber:
stg007
systemID:
Rights
copyrightRestrictions
holderName:
Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung)
digiCopyHolderNames:
Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, ETI-TW
rightsStatement:
authorized
accessRestriction:
noncommercial; for educational and researching purposes
copyrightTime:
1999.1.
statement:
Owner
originalOwner
originalProvider:
Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung)
originalCollocation:
Yen, Hung-ya(Hung Hung)
originalCollectedDate:
1999.1.
digitalCopyOwner
digiCopyOwners:
Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, ETI-TW
digiCopyCollocations:
Research Center for Theatre and Performance Studies, National Central University
digiCopyCollectedDate:
2007.1.23
Metadata
digitalFilesCollocation:
Research Center for Theatre and Performance Studies, National Central University
digitalFileCreatedDate:
2007.1.23
metadataCreation
metadataCreator:
Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, ETI-TW
metadataCreationDate:
2007.1.23
metadataCreationPersonnel:
Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, ETI-TW
metadataModifiedDate:
metadataModifyPersonnel:
no
statement2:
no
Type
aggregationLevel:
item
originalSurrogate:
original
worksType:
modern dram
Format
medium:
Digital Video Disc
extent
quantity:
one
duration:
99min31sec
scale
originalScale:
VHS
digitalCategory:
audio-visual
fileType:
mpg2
filename:
Quartet for Dangerous Liaison
fileDesc:
permanent preserved
fileSize:
2828MB
videoSize:
720*480
frameRate:
30fps
videoBitRate:
5.32Mbps
sampleRate:
48 KHz
audioBitRate:
256kbps
Others