Theatre

The Age

Saturday August 15, 2009

Lily Bragge

WHAT Quartet: The RazorWHERE J-Studios, Drama Studio, 100 Barkly Street, North FitzroyWHEN Today and tomorrow at 7.30pmCOST $25/$15, 9639 0096, www.easytix.com.auAN EXPLORATION of the quartet form, this new production by independent company A is for Atlas interweaves classical music and contemporary theatre in a highly stylised and esoteric work that is likely to polarise audiences.A study in fetishism, debauchery, lust and the ruination of virtue, it is first set in an elegant drawing room on the eve of the French Revolution, and then in the confines of a post-World War III air raid shelter.With music born from a Haydn quartet and text courtesy of the Heiner Muller play Quartet (after Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses), the production is directed by Xan Colman and features actors Andrew Gray and Felicity Steel, performing alongside Duo Hesperides (on violin and cello). -- LILY BRAGGE

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