Successful Strategies
Translated and adapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker from the play by Marivaux.
Product Code: S82000
Full-length Play
Cast size: 5m., 3w.
Limited Streaming Rights Available
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Synopsis
"Timberlake Wertenbaker's translation defies the old rule that you can't do Marivaux in English. Marivaux here analyses the chessboard element of love in which caprice mixes with strategy. A rich rose-decked Comtesse, turning infidelity into a style, whimsically abandons her lover, Dorante. Instead she takes up with the posturing and absurd Chevalier. And, in order to get her revenge, the latter's abandoned lover, the Marquise, forms an amorous alliance with Dorante. What this leaves out of account, however, are the servants (shrewd maids and valets anything but green) who in Marivaux are both victims of their employers' passions and skillful tacticians in their own right." (The Guardian)
Notes
Limited Streaming Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code S82000
- Minimum Cast Size 8
- Pages of Dialogue 64
- Min. Royalty Rate $85.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 80 min
- Staging One int. set.
Categories
- ISBN(13) 9780871291257
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