Word: marivaux
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...Rehearsal is a play-within-a-play. The time is now, although the count and keeper of an 18th century chateau is rehearsing his costumed entourage in an 18th century comedy by Marivaux. The bulk of his cast is a very aristocratic, very French menage a quatre: the count (Keith Mitchell) and his mistress, the countess (Coral Browne) and her lover. Another actor is the count's longtime friend (Alan Badel), a professional womanizer sardonically named Hero. According to the code of this set, the only liaison dangereuse is with a person outside one's own class...
...French class at approximately the level of French 20. Taught entirely in French, its reading list is impressive and demands much of he 20 students in the course. Among the titles are Cocteau's La Machine Infernale, Giraudoux's La Guerre de Troie N'aura Pas Lieu and Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard...
...Legacy, an early 18th century piece by Wilt the Stilt Marivaux, deals with Love, Marriage, and money, with the emphasis where it belongs. Sandra Prutting and Jacqueline Tabachnick are both winning as they lay their claims on M. Mills (who is losing his heart and 200,000 francs). But he takes it well, because the French are a gay people, fond of dancing and light wines...
...farces under the collective title All Gall in mid-May. One of the plays, Georges Feydeau's Please Don't Walk Around in the Nude, was presented early in March, but so many persons were turned away that the Club decided to present it again. The other farces are Marivaux's The Legacy and Jaques Prevert's The United Family...
...summer estate of a wealthy British couple and plan to rob the latter of their valuables and their nieces. An example of the frivolous boulevardier school of writing, the play harks back in form and style to the tradition of the commedia dell' arte, of Moliere and of Marivaux...