Theater Review: Venus in Fur Is All Pleasure, No Pain (New York Magazine)
Theater, David Ives would like to remind you, is a lot like S&M: dominance,
submission, the switch, the whole leather enchilada. You've got to take
direction, surrender to the Moment, abandon autonomy to stories and
storytellers, and occasionally, if you're lucky, dress up as a slave. Whether
you're an actor, a director, or a writer, there's always the threat or
guarantee of ritual humiliation, beginning with that most perverse of all
rites, the Audition, where the power imbalance is simply assumed.
Thomas (Hugh Dancy), the arrogant young playwright cruisin' for a bruisin' in
Ives' toothsome little light-light-bondage comedy _Venus in Fur,_ is a
professional assumer, as well as an amateur misogynist -- the enlightened
kind, fiercely overeducated and deeply angry at some implicit, nonspecific
insult umbilically attached to him at birth. At the top of the show, poor
Thomas, exasperated after a long day of adjudicating other human beings,
complains (to his wife/cell phone) that he's just endured "35 incompetent
actresses" reading for his adaptation of _Venus in Furs,_ the 1869 erotic
novel by post-romantic kink pioneer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. (Von Sacher-
Masoch -- Thomas pedantically informs us -- lent his name to the proclivity he
codified, ...
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