Slave Island – Pierre de Marivaux

Smili Theatre Company

Apo Michanis Theatre

First performance: September 29, 1998

Last performance: October 25, 1998

[…] The island on which the four disembark is not paradise, but it offers the image of a society more integrated than our own, warmer, and even more complex. There, people have been corrected, they have shed their prejudices, and they have moved on to the full exercise of reason, through trial, which, however, will not be the catalyst for a radical restructuring of society, but for a new “social contract” that ensures agreement between servants and masters, under the shelter of reason (demands that were being made during the time of Marivaux).

Marivaux’s theatre consists of both knowledge and pleasure; a true social education.

On Marivaux’s theater. From the performance programme. Text edited by Eri Kyrgia.