Dalliance
Overview
 
"Dalliance," by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and...

 is based on the play "Liebelei," by Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler
Dr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...

. "Dalliance" was first performed at the Lyttelton Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

, London, on May 27, 1986.
Fritz, who considers himself a man-about-town in 1890s Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, is despondent because his affair with a sophisticated, upper-class lady has ended due to the lady's fear her husband might be aware of it. Fritz's friend Theodore tries to cheer Fritz up by introducing him to Christine, a seamstress for the opera
Opera
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Quotations

Why is he tailing me all over town? Does he think I'm pretty or what?

I knew you gone sour, Ryan, but I didn't know you gone simple.

Her name wasn't really Sue Alabama... It was Sue something Greek and unpronounceable.

She primed him and I went in on the cleanup.

Sex was nearly all Sue Alabama ever needed, and she could use it the way some guys use a blackjack.

I can't figure him for a cannon. The only thing Pen Pal would ever use is the U.S. Mail... Extortion.

 
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