Hare's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1900 play 'Der Reigen' (better known in its French translation 'La Ronde') was premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in September 1998. Schnitzler's original, which provoked a prosecution for obscenity, was meant...
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Hare's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1900 play 'Der Reigen' (better known in its French translation 'La Ronde') was premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in September 1998. Schnitzler's original, which provoked a prosecution for obscenity, was meant as a dramatic exposé of the decadence of Austrian society by a doctor who, from a medical point of view, studied the journey of syphilis through all classes of society in a chain of sexual encounters. Hare transfers the action from Vienna to 'one of the great cities of the world, in the present day'. The characters change accordingly, the soldier becomes a cab driver, the parlour maid becomes an au pair, et cetera.
