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The Game of Love and Chance

The Game of Love and Chance

Pierre de MarivauxNeil Bartlett

1999

Genres: Literary FictionBiography

In The Game of Love and Chance, a pair of prospective lovers each swap places with their servants, while their relatives, fully apprised of both deceptions, look on in amusement. Neil Bartlett's adaptation, first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith, finds incentive modern equivalents for Marivaux's ludic theatricality and its roots in the Commedia dell'Arte.

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