Nikos Hatzopoulos
L‘heureux stratagème
by Pierre de Marivaux
An outstanding production repeated this year by popular demand.
A writer of the “metaphysics of the heart”, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763) structures his theatre around two ‘strategies’: surprise and trial. Though unrivalled in the sophistication of his linguistic elegance – indeed, it gave rise to a noun: marivaudage – he was considered no more than a minor artist in his own lifetime. However, thanks to the quality of several of his works, he has come to share the title of best-loved dramatist of the early 18th century with a vociferous critic of his: Voltaire.
This reappraisal of his work began in the 1920s. Since then important directors have focused on Marivaux’s dark and ironic side – a precursor of de Sade and Laclos – which exists alongside the optimistic mien predominant in French theatre until the revolution. Others emphasized the sort of utopian reconciliations between the upper and lower classes Marivaux reserves for masters besotted with servants and vice-versa /for besotted masters and servants.
In Nikos Hatzopoulos’ production the heroes use love as a commodity to be bargained with, and parade their conceit, treachery, intrigues and passions.
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