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''[['''La Ronde]]''''', alsooriginally known asnamed ''Reigen'' in German, is an 1897 play by Arthur Schnitzler. It wasn't performed till 1924, and then it was deemed obscene and shut down.
 
The play takes place in Vienna in the 1890s and consists of 10 love scenes between pairs of people. There are 10 characters, each playing in two adjacent scenes (counting the last as adjacent to the first). The play starts with The Whore and The Soldier, followed by the Soldier and The Parlor Maid, and so on in this fashion until making full circle with The Whore back in the first scene.
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It's been [[Adaptation Distillation|adapted]] for the stage by David Hare as ''The Blue Room'' (in which two performers played all the roles), by Michael John LaChiusa as [[All Musicals Are Adaptations|a musical]], ''Hello Again'' (which shifts decades for each scene, though the characters remain the same), and by Eric Bentley as ''Round 2'' (a Gay version set in [[The Seventies]] [[New York]]).
 
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