Contact:  Rick Peterson, Manager of News Services, 414/832-6590
For Immediate Release						May 19, 1997

Lawrence University Theatre Department Presents "Dangerous Liaisons" May 29-31 


	APPLETON, WIS.   The social, intellectual and erotic climate of late
18th century French society comes to the Cloak Theatre stage in three
performances of the Lawrence University production "Dangerous Liaisons" May
29-31.  Each performance begins at 8 p.m. in the Lawrence Music-Drama Center.

	Based on the French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and
set in pre-Revolutionary Paris, the play follows the battle-of-the-sexes "chess
match" between two equally unscrupulous rivals -- Valmont, a libertine, and
Marquise de Merteuil, a fashionable matron.  Turning love into a passionless,
emotionless, intellectual activity, they manipulate and destroy the lives of
others in their game, only to wind up as the punished victims of their own
devious schemings. 

	The production, featuring 10 major characters and period costumes, is
directed by Lawrence sophomore Maria Mitsova, who also stars as Marquise de
Merteuil.

	Tickets for "Dangerous Liaisons," at $5 for adults, $2 for senior
citizens and students, are available at the Lawrence box office, Brokaw Hall,
115 S. Drew St., Appleton, 12:30-5:30 p.m., Monday-Saturday.  For more
information, or to charge tickets to Visa/Mastercard, call 414/832-6749.