Word: marivaux
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Like last month’s production of Children of Herakles, the ART’s interpretation La Dispute brings an old play into the modern day. When it premiered in 1744 at the Comédie-Française, La Dispute had only a one-night run; Marivaux has languished in obscurity for some two hundred years since. While critics generally acknowledged the characters’ witty dialogue, they have dismissed Marivaux’s works as light, fluffy and superficial—a perception which Bogart hopes to counteract...
...Marivaux was ahead of his time,” Bogart explains, adding that the premiere of La Dispute was “like heavy metal to [the Parisians...
...latest film, Mira mixes romantic comedy with a dash of period drama in director Clare Peploe’s Triumph of Love, a film adaptation of an 18th-century story by French playwright Pierre Marivaux. As a princess struggling to win the heart of a prince (Jay Rodan) while restoring the rule of her kingdom to its rightful heir, Mira dons a cunning and passionate persona that manages to crack the stoic visages of the prince’s rationalist guardian (Ben Kingsley) and his withdrawn sister (Fiona Shaw). “I offer them the idea of love...
...setting, the story itself is surprisingly modern, a fact that Mira attributes to the strength of Marivaux’s writing. “Great dramatic literature is timeless,” she says. “You can still perform the Greeks, you can still perform Shakespeare. And Marivaux is on a very high level in France. He’s not quite as well known in America, but in Europe, everybody knows this play. The female character in it is so modern. She’s a queen who has ultimate power in her little kingdom, and she?...