Sex comes to MATCH via Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.’s up-close-and-personal production of David Ives’ Venus in Fur. Riffing on the once-scandalous 1870 novella by Austrian Leopold Sacher-Masoch, whose “pain is pleasure” principle of its main character gave us “masochism,” Ives gaily dances through sexual politics, submission, man vs. woman, obsession, toxic masculinity, power dynamics, femininity, […]
