LOU SALOMÉ – scholar, writer, literary critic, psychoanalyst and femme fatale par excellence. She was the legendary woman with the whip, who besotted and rejected Professor NIETZSCHE. And sent him on his way to becoming his era’s most celebrated and controversy philosopher.
Playades Theatre Company presents the premiere of their devised/documentary play THE MOST DANGEROUS TOY – a theatrical encounter between Nietzsche and Lou, two radical and lonely minds, brought together and separated by the rules of a society they can not escape.
The production merges private letters, historic documents, poetry and devised theatre to tell the compelling tale of their ill-stared relationship, a struggle between genius and madness, philosophy and reality, society and individual fulfillment – man and woman…
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