Venue: Scenic Stage Theatre, Dept. of Theatre, Film & Television, University of York
Date: Thu 08 Mar - Sat 10 Mar
Time: 7.30pm
Produced by: Writing, Directing and Performance 3rd Year Students
Written by: Carlo Goldoni and Pierre de Marivaux
Directed by: Nick Green & Will Edwards
Designed by: Holly Kaye & Rebecca Murphy
The students of York University's Theatre, Film and Television department bring to you, Two of a Kind? Two Plays in one Evening; Carlo Goldoni's Friends and Lovers and Pierre de Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance
Friends and Lovers
Set in the heart of Bologna, audiences are welcomed into a space that captures mid eighteenth century Italian culture, traditions and values. The play explores the obstacles that confront true love and how they are managed by those in love. It identifies whether happiness comes to those who are honest, or those who are cunning. Overall questioning whether the right set of lovers end up together? The characters will encourage you to laugh at, pass judgement and reflect upon their actions and decisions.
The Game of Love and Chance
The play appears to be a light and digestible farce with ridiculous situations and equally ridiculous characters. However, all is not as it seems. Beneath the comedy lies a much darker play; a play full of cheating, lying and mischievous game playing. It is those tragic elements though, that help the comdy to be unlocked.
Our production re-houses the action to the lobby of a 1950s English hotel. Servants have become maids and bell-boys, corsets have become swing dresses and devious plans to trick daughters and disguise yourself in order to spy on potential spouses, have stayed just as they are. This production modernises and re-imagines Marivaux's comedy but stays faithful to his detailed, dark and hilarious story.
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