Simplicity
From: Wednesday, 8th October 2003
To: Saturday, 8 November 2003
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Synopsis
A marriage has been arranged. As the young woman awaits the arrival of her husband to be, her father suggests that, in order to gain a truthful impression of her lover she changes places with her maid. But what may her lover have arranged? Marivaux' The Game of Love and Chance 1730 is his best known play. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was the first to translate the play, although her version was not produced in England until 1988.
Our Review:
16 October 2003
Sam Walter's jewel box of a theatre, The Orange Tree, has rediscovered another slight, but exquisite gem, in its new production Simplicity, a restoration comedy by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The author, who died in 1782, was an intriguing character. In fact you could say she was the 18 Century's answer to a cross between Dorothy Parker and Germaine Greer.
Her barbed wit (at a time when women were not expected to exhibit such), upset numerous contemporary celebrities. She was an aristocrat and a well-travelled woman of letters, a self-educated scholar concerned with women's education, a conservative political journalist and a medical pioneer who helped spearhead the smallpox inoculation campaign in Britain.
Simplicity is a loose translation of Marivaux' A Game of Love and Chance. It is a lively little comedy which - in restoration convention - concerns two young aristocratic lovers, the subject of an arranged marriage b...
Creative
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Author)
Orange Tree (Producer)
Pierre de Marivaux (Translation)
Auriol Smith (Director)
Sam Dowson (Design)
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