The Blue Room

The Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter delivers "a witty, contemporary reworking of Arthur Schnitzler's nineteenth-century shocker La Ronde" (The Mail on Sunday, four stars).

Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as "completely unprintable," and indeed, its premiere in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophüls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde.

Now David Hare has reset these circul...