After 65 shows in two theaters in front of a total of 14,500 audience members, the adaptation of David Ives’ play “Venus in Fur” by Lina Khoury and Gabriel Yammine, directed by Jacques Maroun, has proven to be simply flawless. The play brought out a wide range of responses from the spectators; from laughter to shock back to laughter and then confusion. But the greatest emotion of all was simply enjoyment at its best. During the hour and a half treat, the audience had the pleasure of witnessing two very powerful performances. In “Venus,” Badih Abou Chakra portrays the writer and first-time director of the same name in a play based on the 1870’s novel by German writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch “Venus in Furs” (the novel that inspired the term ‘sadomasochism’). As the viewers are first introduced to him, they sense how exasperated and desperate he is because his hunt
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