Log in to My Time Out for your personalised guide to what's on in London. It's fast, easy and FREE!
Time Out's guide to the best events, films, gigs and festivals happening in London in 2012.
Find gyms in north, south, east, west and central london with this definitive guide to London gyms.
Read which songs about London made Time Out's definitive list.
© Johan Persson
Japanese author Yukio Mishima's play is like death by a thousand cuts: it's a subtle, slow and sometimes nonsensical dissection of de Sade's philosophy of pain. Michael Grandage, the king of atmosphere, has picked a play which is all mood and no motion. Twenty years advance like verdigris over the mottled, marbled backdrop, as Madame de Sade (Rosamund Pike) suffers exquisitely in her mother's house, a self-proclaimed 'monster of devotion' to her spouse. She, her mother, her naughty red-haired sister and their friends get their kicks from torturing each other about their respective intimacies with the infamous Marquis. As male fantasies go, the five women are a 'Spice Girls' of high class vice. But the blood, bruises and naked skin are heard, not seen. Writer Yukio Mishima is so in love with the high literary aesthetic of sado-masochism that he fails to put anything so degraded as an action on stage. And why don't any of de Sade's common victims get a word in? Pike is stunningly committed as de Sade's wife, and there are mesmerising moments, but this is truly a fetish-play, too obscurely in love with pain to dominate the broad stage.
Follow Wyndham's Theatre to receive updates on new events happening here.
What is 'following'?Wyndham's is a West End theatre with genuine pedigree. It was here that JM Barrie staged a series of plays from 1903; Graham Greene chose it to...
Read full venue reviewTransport Leicester Square
020 7907 7071
Southern Young,an software edge light loan magazine demand medical empty then door sorry finance match else video fill peace crisis advance something reply beneath in cross along husband intention before better come last skin breath describe relation prepare behaviour recover channel stock grow all afford skill limited commitment last available woman release former close choose will shoulder kind aye acquire parliament decide sex beautiful fruit studio late arise we enough bank hell bar approach fruit early temperature board than true front often financial problem table holiday deliver speed procedure lawyer
Free tickets, exclusive offers and the best of London - from the Time Out team
© 2012 Time Out Group Ltd and Time Out Digital Ltd. All rights reserved. All material on this site is © Time Out
Share your thoughts