Transatlantic Liason

Theatre Three presents the English language premiere of Paris’ current stage success, Transatlantic Liaison by Fabrice Rosier. The long affair between a distinguished French woman of letters, Simone de Beauvoir (author of The Second Sex) and the blue collar Chicago novelist Nelson Algren (author of Man with a Golden Arm) lasted almost twenty years. Their blazing sexual passion joined two remarkably opposite people who strove mightily to explain themselves to one another. Letters, and Simone’s accounts of their interludes together, form the basis of this fascinating new play.