Carmelo Rifici created this stage adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Relations Dangereuses. The violent and brutal nature of the original novel’s letters is echoed by the ideas of a range of authors and philosophers, from Artaud to Pasolini, Pascal to Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky to Canetti, all of whom director Rifici and dramaturg Livia Rossi interact with in staging this abstract battleground governed by the destructive power of thoughts and language. The cast includes Flavio Capuzzo Dolcetta, Federica Furlani, Elena Ghiaurov, Monica Piseddu, Edoardo Ribatto, and Livia Rossi.

inspired by Antonin Artaud, Teresa of Avila, Elias Canetti, Carl von Clausewitz, Fyodor Dostoevsky,
René Girard, Christopher Hampton, Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, John Keats, Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade,
Simone Weil, Stefan Zweig and from the Song of Songs
dramaturgy Carmelo Rifici, Livia Rossi
with Flavio Capuzzo Dolcetta, Federica Furlani, Elena Ghiaurov, Monica Piseddu,
Edoardo Ribatto, Livia Rossi
directed by Carmelo Rifici
sound design Federica Furlani
scenic system Carmelo Rifici, Pierfranco Sofia
lighting design by Giulia Pastore
visual project Daniele Spanò
Margherita Platé costumes
dramaturgy of the body Alessandro Sciarroni
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura