{"id":318841,"date":"2026-08-11T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318841\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:38:19","slug":"les-enfants-terribles-will-play-limited-run-at-off-broadways-east-village-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318841\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Enfants Terribles Will Play Limited Run at Off-Broadway&#8217;s East Village Basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Gardner\u2019s world premiere theatrical adaptation of <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/jean-cocteau-vault-0000013432\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Cocteau<\/a>\u2019s Les Enfants Terribles will play a limited engagement at Off-Broadway&#8217;s East Village Basement September 10-October 4. Opening night is set for September 12.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Gardner, the cast will\u00a0include\u00a0Caroline (Lina) DeFazio, Victor Gao, Maysie Jane Kilgore, and Rutger Scott.<\/p>\n<p>The play, based on the famed novella, follows\u00a0Paul and Elisabeth, two emotionally\u00a0sheltered teenage siblings, who\u00a0seclude themselves in a spiritual fiction of their own creation. As they vie for dominance, the \u201cenfants\u201d play cruel games among themselves and upon their adoring companions, Gerard and Agatha.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement\u00a0Gardner says, \u201cJean Cocteau\u2019s novella, Les Enfants Terribles, feels like one of those subversive secrets you discover at some point in your reading life. It guts and delights you and breaks all the rules in a way you thought was not allowed. Sexy and verboten, heartbreaking and wrong. It reminds you of a time in your youth when playtime was more real than reality. And playtime had just as many rules. The book cries out for theatricality, describing the children\u2019s &#8216;room&#8217; as the set of a stage drama upon which they all play. I\u2019ve been longing to create a literalization of their &#8216;play&#8217; for years. And the themes of cruelty, persecution and mythomania couldn\u2019t be more timely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Kunce is the intimacy director, and Bethany Qian is the production stage manager.<\/p>\n<p>Crawl Space Plays is producing.<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.enfantsplay.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\" title=\"https:\/\/www.enfantsplay.com\">EnfantsPlay.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Gardner\u2019s world premiere theatrical adaptation of Jean Cocteau\u2019s Les Enfants Terribles will play a limited engagement at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-318841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}