 The undescribed "action" of the play compresses the main plot turns of Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 epistolary novel "Les liaisons dangereuses" into a little more than an hour of "theater games" in which the two performers take turns playing Laclos's characters of weary rouė, scheming adulteress, virtuous wife, and innocent virgin (Although the roles are usually played by man and woman, other productions have chosen to cast same-sex couples).or even an operatic version for single performer.Despite its challenges to performers (and audiences), the play's strange balance between austerity and flamboyance has rendered it much the most performed of Müller's plays.