The route that has brought Richard Twyman to Tokyo to direct an all-Japanese cast in a play based on an 18th-century French novel has taken many twists and turns.
Now, though, it has finally led this rising star of the British drama scene here with his own new version of ¡°Les Liaisons Dangereuses,¡± a work in which two estranged lovers weave heartless sex schemes to wreck each other¡¯s future.
¡°I grew up in the Highlands of Scotland and had no contact with theater,¡± Twyman explains, going back to the beginning. ¡°At school I was cripplingly shy, but I was really lucky because it had a good drama department, and from there I went on to study drama and theater arts at Birmingham University.¡±
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