The island of slaves / Pierre Marivaux ; translated by Neil Bartlett

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

Classification Dewey : 842.5

Marivaux, Pierre de (1688-1763) (Fonction à préciser / indeterminate function)

Bartlett, Neil (1958-....) (Traducteur / translator)

Résumé / Abstract : What will become of us? Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the other foot. Marivaux's potent mix of laughter, emotion and theatrical game-playing makes him one of the most surprising and most modern of all classic playwrights. Neil Bartlett has adapted this brilliant comedy of role-swapping and redemption, which premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in April 2002