LA SECONDE SURPRISE DE L´AMOUR, DE MARIVAUX

Profound Marivaux, when his metaphysics of the heart manifest themselves on stage wth such artistry...

- Le Monde

It all begins with a woman’s sighs. “There’s no consolation for me,” says the widowed marchioness. The gentleman has also lost the woman he loves. Both meet, talk, feel sorry for themselves and, through one of those rash acts so common to the human race, they fall in love... From the hands of Marivaux and Bondy, comes a timeless production in which two human beings see the pain in themselves and throw open the question: “From where, exactly, does love spring?”.
A play bathed in a ghostly light but also in a humour which reveals how, despite advances in civilisation and refinement, deep down inside ourselves our instincts, impulses and desires reign supreme...

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