Perhaps one of the cleverest things I've ever read, maybe even a play within a play within a play?? At least, the play is about a man who wrote a play based on a book. It's brilliant. I got nervous at first because it seemed that maybe Ives was going to spit up really obvious ideas about feminism...
After a long day of auditions for his new play, the discouraged playwright/director prepares to head home, just as a new actress arrives late and insists on auditioning. His play is based on Sacher-Masoch's novel, Venus in Fur. He thinks it's about love, the actress thinks it's about S&M. “But...