Marivaux

The opening plays in Laurence Boswell's season of new work at the Theatre Royal's Ustinov Studio have been slightly underwhelming, but all may yet come good with this new Mike Alfreds translation of Marivaux's 18th-century comedy.

This week's new theatre and dance 2011

Neil Bartlett's version of Pierre Marivaux's witty and playful 18th-century farce has already been widely acclaimed and it should prove a surefire hit for Philip Wilson and the Salisbury Playhouse production team.

This week's new theatre 2011

With the Com é die-Fran ç aise, she has performed the classics of Moli è re, Marivaux and Anouilh, among others — dramatic, light-hearted roles, but not Corneille or Racine, classic tragic parts like Ph è dre or Britannicus.

Gis Dalya Alberge 2010

The juicy twist in the Marivaux play is that the usurper -- Princess Leonide -- is smitten by Agis without knowing who he is.

Olney Theatre's 'Triumph of Love' has great comedy, performances and music 2010

Biancolelli, you are no Marivaux and barely hold a light to Corneille, but I suppose it will have to do.

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Biancolelli, you are no Marivaux and barely hold a light to Corneille, but I suppose it will have to do.

Madame Riccoboni Young Geoffrion 2009

The material was dangerous and incendiary in France 64 years before the Revolution, and Marivaux was careful not to offer it to the great, established Comedie Francaise but to a troupe of Italian comedians resident in Paris, in which company it escaped being banned by the censors.

DesignerBlog Will 2006

Otherwise, call the production "A response to Marivaux," or "Robert Woodruff's Island of Slaves."

DesignerBlog Will 2006

When it was all over, I commented to a friend, the general manager of Opera Boston, that I had never seen a Marivaux play on stage before.

DesignerBlog Will 2006

Written in 1725 at the beginning of the Age of Reason, Marivaux creates a fantasy island on which a group of escaped slaves have created a utopian community.

DesignerBlog Will 2006