TORONTO -- A century ago, at the peak of the Victorian era, one might have forgiven playwright Arthur Schnitzler for failing to realize that sex is not a spectator sport.

After all, Schnitzler lived in a world where sex was rarely discussed in polite company -- and never seen. Small wonder then, that when he wrote La Ronde -- a sexual circle comprised of 10 separate couplings -- in 1897, he considered the play not only unstageable, but unprintable. Subsequent productions in the 1920s in his homeland that spawned near-riots would seem to have proved him right.
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