With “Venus in Fur,” veteran filmmaker Roman Polanski orchestrates an intriguing adaptation the Tony Award-winning play by David Ives. Opening with deftly applied misdirection, the film proceeds to ...

The film grossed over $26K, averaging $13,100 per screen, kicking off a platform release; it will be distributed to the top 15 markets throughout July. The French language film stars Emmanuelle ...

They were already in trouble... then she turned up.

Roman Polanski is set to direct a new film adaptation of the Broadway play Venus in Fur, it has been revealed. The Pianist director has chosen wife Emmanuelle Seigner to play the lead role in the ...

Inspired by a true story of survival.

For his 2010 play Venus in Fur, David Ives wraps a central theme of psychosexual power dynamics in a crazy quilt of theatrical genres to produce a head-spinning comedy. If Ives is almost recklessly ...

The sexual term “masochism” was coined in 1886 by an Austrian psychiatrist in response to the sexually charged works of Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), ...

Venus in Furs, the 1870 erotic novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, concerns a nobleman with a passion for pelt-draped, whip-wielding women. Kink aside, it’s a lackluster work, bereft of plot and ...

The Weekend Theater, 11001 W. Seventh St. at Chester Street, Little Rock, stages “Venus in Fur” by David Ives, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and March 30-April 1 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and April 2. Thomas ...

Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur. Into his empty audition ...