La Ronde (also known by its original German title, Reigen ) is a play in which ten people form an unwitting interpersonal circle with their secret sexual relationships. It was written by Arthur Schnitzler in 1897 and was controversial at that time. It scrutinizes the sexual morality and class ideology of its day through successive encounters between pairs of characters (before or after a sexual encounter). By choosing characters across all levels of society, the play offers social commentary on how sexual contact transgresses class boundaries. Printed privately in 1900, it was not publicly performed until 1920, when it provoked strong reactions. The play's two titles – in German Reigen and in French La Ronde – refer to a round dance , as portrayed in the English rhyme Ring a Ring o' Roses .
21-445: Reigen may refer to: Reigen (play) or La Ronde , a 1900 play by Arthur Schnitzler Reigen (film) , a 1973 adaptation directed by Otto Schenk Reigen (opera) , a 1993 adaptation by Philippe Boesmans Emperor Reigen , 112th emperor of Japan Reigen , spin-off manga of Mob Psycho 100 . Reigen (singer) (born 1985), American singer-songwriter Topics referred to by
42-541: A gender-fluid text meant that any part could be played by any actor, regardless of gender. The roles were assigned each night in between scenes by a 'La Ronde' or Wheel of Fortune. There were over 3000 possible realisations of the play. The text is published by Oberon Books. Reigen , a 1993 German-language operatic adaptation by Philippe Boesmans , premiered at La Monnaie , Brussels in 1993, and subsequently recorded. In his autobiography, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned , Alan Alda says that for
63-593: A season of plays at the Old Vic in 1961. At the same time as his theatre work in the fifties, he directed plays for television including episodes of ITV Television Playhouse and ITV Play of the Week . He also started to direct films which he continued to do through the sixties, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970), a feature film adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel with Tom Courtenay in
84-529: A year) and in 1959 he founded the 59 Theatre Company, based at the Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) . Michael Elliott was appointed assistant artistic director and, although short-lived, the company achieved considerable success with productions of Brand , Little Eyolf and Danton's Death . During this time, Wrede also directed both the stage debut of Alun Owen 's play The Rough and Ready Lot and its 1959 television adaptation. Wrede and Elliott ran
105-462: Is set in the 1890s in Vienna . Its dramatic structure consists of ten interlocking scenes between pairs of lovers. Each of its ten characters appears in two consecutive scenes (with one from the final scene, The Whore, having appeared in the first). In 1981 the theatrical rights to Schnitzler's play fell temporarily out of copyright and several stage adaptations were crafted and performed. In 1982
126-571: Is called "American la Ronde". This version hews to the Schnitzler structure but updates the roles to more modern archetypes. It also leaves the gender of all roles at the discretion of the producing theatre. "American la Ronde" is published by Dramatists Play Service, New York. This adaptation, under its previous title 360 (round dance) , was given a workshop production at the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. The dramatic structure of
147-425: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Reigen (play) La Ronde was first printed in 1900 for private circulation amongst friends. In 1903, the first German-language edition was published in Vienna , selling some 40,000 copies, but was banned by the censors a year later. A German editor was found in 1908 to publish the play from Germany. In 1912 it
168-1008: The Rosemary Branch Theatre in London in March–April 2011. Dood Paard , the Amsterdam-based avant-garde theater collective, presented Reigen ad lib at the Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Guggenheim Museum in New York in April 2011. A new translation, translated by Lukas Raphael, directed by Joel Cottrell and designed by Amber Dernulc set in 1953, opened at The White Bear in London in August 2011. A new contemporary adaptation, by American playwright Steven Dietz ,
189-542: The first story he wrote for M*A*S*H (an episode titled " The Longjohn Flap "), he borrowed the structure from La Ronde . "In my version, the object that's passed from couple to couple is a pair of long johns during a cold spell in the Korean winter." These films are based upon La Ronde (1897), some without crediting the play or the playwright: Casper Wrede Baron Casper Gustaf Kenneth Wrede af Elimä , known as Caspar Wrede (8 February 1929 – 25 September 1998),
210-544: The lead. In 1967, Wrede and Michael Elliott agreed to direct productions for Braham Murray ’s Century Theatre at Manchester University and in1968 the three men set up the 69 Theatre Company also at the university where they produced plays until 1972. The group started to look for a permanent theatre in Manchester. They were joined by Richard Negri , a colleague and friend of Wrede's since the Old Vic School who
231-614: The play had its British premiere at the Royal Exchange, Manchester directed by Casper Wrede with William Hope as The Young Man, Cindy O'Callaghan as The Nursemaid and Gabrielle Drake as The Young Married Woman. In 1989, Mihály Kornis re-located its action to communist-era Hungary , rendering the Young Gentleman and the Husband as communist politicians. Michael John LaChiusa 's musical adaptation Hello Again
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#1732802541610252-586: The play has been utilized by longform improv ensembles. A series of two-person improvised scenes are interwoven in the same way as Schnitzler's characters are. The form was first used by Craig Cackowski in Chicago in the mid-1990s. in February 2017, a new adaptation written and directed by Max Gill was first staged at The Bunker Theatre, London. The cast featured Alexander Vlahos , Lauren Samuels , Amanda Wilkin and Leemore Marrett Jr. In Gill's new version,
273-409: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Reigen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reigen&oldid=1195559575 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
294-924: The story: Eric Bentley 's Round 2 (1986) is set in New York in the 1970s; Jack Heifner 's Seduction and Michael Kearns 's pro-safe-sex piece Complications (2004) ( Complications was remade as Dean Howell 's film Nine Lives ); and Joe DiPietro 's Fucking Men (2008) (which is set in contemporary New York). A version of the play called The Blue Room appeared on Broadway in New York City in 1998, starring Nicole Kidman . Suzanne Bachner created an adaptation examining 21st-century mores, including, straight, gay, and bisexual characters entitled Circle . Circle opened its five-month off-Broadway run at The Kraine Theater on February 15, 2002, Horse Trade Theater Group presenting The John Montgomery Theatre Company production. A new musical gay version, written by Peter Scott-Presland with music by David Harrod, ran at
315-518: Was a Finnish theatre and film director . He was long active in the English theatre, co-founding the Royal Exchange theatre company in Manchester. Casper Wrede came from a noble Finnish family of Livonian origin, which owned large estates mainly in eastern Finland between the 17th and 19th centuries, and had been created barons in 1652 by Queen Christina . He was born in Viipuri, Finland , and
336-722: Was produced off-Broadway in 1994. David Hare 's The Blue Room re-located its action to contemporary London , where it was first staged at the Donmar Warehouse in 1998. A group-written version, set on an Australian Federal election night and Sydney Mardi Gras, and presented as a part of the Sydney Festival in January 2002, 360 Positions in a One Night Stand , by Ben Ellis , Veronica Gleeson, Nick Marchand , Tommy Murphy , and Emma Vuletic, and directed by Chris Mead. There have been four notable gay versions of
357-777: Was staged earlier in Budapest in 1912.) The play elicited violent critical and popular reactions. Schnitzler suffered moralistic and personal attacks that became virulently antisemitic ; he was attacked as a Jewish pornographer and the outcry came to be known as the "Reigen scandal." Despite a 1921 Berlin court verdict that dismissed the charges of immorality, Schnitzler withdrew La Ronde himself from public production in German-speaking countries. The play remained popular in Russia, Czechoslovakia and especially in France, where it
378-790: Was the nephew of actor Gerda Wrede . He died in Helsinki, Finland , in 1998. In 1951, he left Finland and enrolled at the Old Vic Theatre School in London run by the French director Michel Saint-Denis . He was much influenced by Saint-Denis and his ideas had a great effect on the theatre companies that Wrede helped establish. In 1956, he was involved with the setting up of the Piccolo Theatre company in Chorlton-cum-Hardy , Manchester (which only survived for
399-527: Was to design the new theatre, and the actor James Maxwell and in 1973 a temporary theatre, The Tent, was installed in the former Royal Exchange in Manchester. The success of The Tent led to the decision being taken to build the new theatre inside the Royal Exchange. Wrede directed one of the two opening productions in September 1976, The Prince of Homburg . He directed over 20 productions during
420-528: Was translated into French, and in 1920 into English and published as Hands Around . In 1917 an English translation written by Marya Mannes was published by Boni & Liveright, inc. A Dutch translation, by Jo van Ammers-Küller, was published in 1923 as Rondedans: tien dialogen . Schnitzler's play was not publicly performed until 23 December 1920 in Berlin and 1 February 1921 in Vienna. (An unauthorized production
441-414: Was twice adapted for the cinema, in 1950 and 1964. In 1982, fifty years after Schnitzler's death, his son Heinrich Schnitzler re-released the play for German-language performances. In 1922, Sigmund Freud wrote to Schnitzler: "You have learned through intuition – though actually as a result of sensitive introspection – everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons." The play
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