Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.

• National Theatre
• The Donmar Warehouse
• Janet McTeer
• Dominic West
• Elaine Cassidy
• Adjoa Andoh
• Morfydd Clark
• Edward Holcroft
• Una Stubbs
• Theo Barklem-Biggs