This production contains nudity, sexual and adult themes and is not suitable for children
Tickets now on sale online, by phone or over the counter
Performances:
- March 25, 26, 27, April 1, 2, 3 at 7:30pm
- Matinee, March 28 at 2pm
Ticket Prices:
- Adults $26;
- Concessions $22;
- Members/Groups* $20
*Groups are defined as 10 or more people.
To book the wheelchair access seat please phone 5449 9343
Bookings:
- Phone sales: 5449 9343 Wed to Sun 9am to noon
- Counter sales: at the theatre Wed to Sun 9am to noon
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or online.
La Ronde
sensual – seductive – scandalous
10 scenes. 10 characters. 10 sexual encounters.
Noosa Arts Theatre brings to the Sunshine Coast, a sensual, seductive and scandalous Adults Only production of the classic play, La Ronde.
In its original form, La Ronde was banned and its playwright, Arthur Schnitzler, jailed; the material was simply too scandalous for the European audiences of the early twentieth century.
What about for contemporary Sunshine Coast audiences? Sam Coward (Director of SHOUT! The Legend of the Wild One) doesn’t seem to think so. Well known for challenging his actors and audiences, Sam says La Ronde is just as current, as relevant and as revealing an insight into class structure and society’s attitudes towards sex as it has always been. “It’s not a new topic.”
“We have taken La Ronde off the page,” says Sam, “having re-written with the cast, a large percentage of the original script, which has already been translated and adapted many times (The Blue Room being the most widely recognised) we are taking sex and making it sexy...sometimes. Other times, not so much.” He explains, “La Ronde is about sex - the variations, the expectations, the preconceptions, the misconceptions – and sex is not always nice. Audiences will be seduced, sure; they will see and experience beauty, but they will also cringe at the grittier, uglier aspects of sex that we don’t tend to talk about.” Sam believes sex is the last taboo.
La Ronde, with an accomplished local cast that includes Tim Murfin, Stephen Moore, Carly Partridge, Mary Eggleston, Xanthe Coward, Shane Ross, Sharon Grimley, Kay Ellsum, Meg Monroe and Nathan Hynes, is bound to get audiences talking. In various states of undress, the characters dance through a series of sexual encounters, of which we see just ten in succession, without an interval.
La Ronde is R-Rated and a little risqué. Sunshine Coast audiences can certainly expect to feel confronted. Think Burlesque but expect a deeper look into human intent, emotion and deception. Think sophisticated entertainment with a razor sharp edge. Think dark and delicious new theatre, like nothing you’ve ever experienced. La Ronde will delight and disturb...