Decadence (1994)

Directors:

Steven Berkoff, David Tickner

Writers:

Steven Berkoff (play), Steven Berkoff (screenplay)

Stars:

Steven Berkoff, Joan Collins, Christopher Biggins

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Steven Berkoff	...	Steve / Les / Helen's Couturier
Joan Collins	...	Helen / Sybil
Christopher Biggins	...	The Entourage #1
Michael Winner	...	The Entourage #2
Marc Sinden	...	The Entourage #3
Bill Dunbar	...	The Entourage #4
Robert Longden	...	The Entourage #5
David Alder	...	The Entourage #6
Tim Dry	...	The Entourage #7
Imogen Bain	...	The Entourage #8
Sussanah Morley	...	The Entourage #9
Ursula Smith	...	The Entourage #10
Veronica Lang	...	The Entourage #11
Matilda Ziegler	...	The Entourage #12
Terence Beesley	...	Giovanni

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

dominatrix | based on play

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Details

Country:

UK Germany

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 January 1994 (UK)

Also Known As:

Decadencia

Filming Locations:

Luxembourg

Company Credits

Production Co:

Delux Productions, Black Forest Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Gruen Planet: Spring Racing Carnival (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Decadence"
Written by David Bowie

User Reviews

About Decadence

The play features two actors playing four characters.

Helen and Steve (played by Steven Berkoff and Joan Collins)are rich, having an affair, and speak in "strangulated, upper class accents". Working class Sybil and Les, played by the same two actors, are Steve's wife and a private detective hired to follow her husband.

The theme of the play is that the upper classes subjugate the working classes not by brute force, but by a willing adherence by both to the British class system.

The play's monologues satirize mainly "the ruling classes or upper classes so called by virtue of strangulated vowel tones rather than any real achievement", but it also makes fun of the vices of the working classes.

Just another masterpiece by the British actor/director/writer Steven Berkoff. Not to be missed.