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...footnote or curiosity to a leading dramatist at the nation's nonprofit houses -- and who has been dead since 1763. This season alone has seen at least eight major productions involving four plays, from False Admissions at Connecticut's Hartford Stage to The Triumph of Love at California's Berkeley Repertory. Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York, is now playing The Game of Love and Chance; a different translation of Triumph is running off- Broadway; and Princeton's McCarter troupe is rehearsing The Double Inconstancy, retranslated as Changes of Heart...
...rediscovery began a few years ago, European and avant-garde American stagings often emphasized the dark elements of his work. At the other extreme, some scholars saw only his fascination with Italian commedia dell'arte buffoonery. The premier Marivaux exponent Stephen Wadsworth, who directed his translation of Triumph at Berkeley and is staging his text of Changes of Heart at McCarter, thinks any successful production mingles both flavors: "Marivaux's plays all combine joy and ebullience with a savagely acute perception of how people operate. He wants to leave you on the horns of a dilemma. You cannot simply like...
...endangering the emotional health of his patients in the process. "If this were just an example of some zany new outer limit of how foolish psychology and psychiatry can be in the wrong hands, we'd look at it, roll our eyes and walk away," says University of California, Berkeley, psychologist Richard Ofshe. "But the use of his techniques in counseling is substantially harming lots of people...
...While Berkeley students were protesting, SDSinitiated a new organizational structure, with tenregional organizers to coordinate chapteractivities...
...SDSers were at the forefront of the freespeech movement at Berkeley. But SDS leadersrecognized the importance of the student strike of1964 and many met with Berkeley leaders to learnabout their activist techniques and offer support...