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Pierre de Marivaux

July 2021

  • The Game of Love and Chance, Arcola Outside, 2021

    The Game of Love and Chance review – a farcical romance made in Chelsea

    Swooning Sloanes give Marivaux’s class criss-crossing comedy a modern twist in this theatre’s new outdoor venue

March 2018

  • The Game of Love and Chai

    The Game of Love and Chai review – Nigel Planer gives French farce a Bollywood remake

    Marivaux’s French nobles become suburban British Asians in a pacy but unconvincing update of the romantic comedy

February 2014

  • Les Fausses Confidences, Odeon theatre, Paris

    Les Fausses Confidences review – 'Isabelle Huppert is sensational'

    Luc Bondy's stylish, modern-dress production of Marivaux's comedy is a compelling portrait of a woman poleaxed by passion, writes Michael Billington

April 2011

  • pitmen painters

    This week's new theatre
    This week's new theatre

    The Pitmen Painters | London Road | The Game Of Love And Chance | Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story | Uncle Vanya | Peeling | In Praise Of Love | Platform 18/Brick Award

April 2007

  • The Triumph of Love

    Braham Murray's production suggests Marivaux's verbal felicities are almost impossible to translate, says Alfred Hickling.

June 2004

  • Diabolical creatures

    Jonathan Kent's new production of Marivaux strikes the right vicious note, an all-female Much Ado doesn't have much going on and they're making a meal of it at the Riverside.

April 1999

  • Move over Molière

    Marivaux's subversive comedy is up there with Mozart and Shakespeare, says Michael Billington

March 1999

  • No dispute

    Who was the first to be unfaithful? Man or woman? Marivaux's The Dispute (1744) is about an experiment to discover the answer. And the heartening thing about Neil Bartlett's fine translation and production - a joint venture between the RSC and the Lyric Hammersmith now being staged at the Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon - is that it treats the play neither as fascist metaphor nor flimsy trifle: it finds a perfect balance between Marivaux's dark and comic instincts.
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